{"product_id":"the-hunger-we-pass-down-isbn-9781645662815","title":"The Hunger We Pass Down","description":"\u003cb\u003eJordan Peele’s \u003ci\u003eUs \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eThe School For Good Mothers \u003c\/i\u003ein this horror-tinged intergenerational saga, as a single mother’s doppelganger forces her to confront the legacy of violence that has shaped every woman in their family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Genuinely frightening story of rape, abuse, and neglect. A bold story of intergenerational trauma that creates spooky scares out of real-life atrocities.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus, STARRED Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBREAK YOUR MOTHER’S CURSE . . . BEFORE IT CONSUMES YOU TOO.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSingle mom Alice Chow is drowning. Between a booming small business, a resentful teenage daughter, a screen-obsessed son, and a secret boyfriend, Alice can never get everything done in a day. It’s all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne morning, Alice wakes up and everything has been done: the counters are clear, the kids’ rooms are tidy, orders are neatly packed and labeled. As the pattern continues, she realizes that someone—or some\u003ci\u003ething\u003c\/i\u003e—has been doing her chores for her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice knows she should be uneasy, but she’s too tired to care. The extra time lets her connect with her hard-edged mother, who has started to share their family history—a “curse” beginning with her great-grandmother, who was imprisoned as a comfort woman in Hong Kong during World War II.\u003cbr\u003eLurking in the corners of Alice’s new normal, those family demons are as real as ever . . . and about to become impossible to ignore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the relentless specter of generational trauma as it is handed down from mother to daughter, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger We Pass Down\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it might take to break the cycle: heroism, depravity, or both.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger We Pass Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A claustrophobic tale told on an epic scale…Each woman’s story is as captivating—and each character as rounded—as the next. Lee has written a genuinely frightening story of rape, abuse, and neglect. A bold story of intergenerational trauma that creates spooky scares out of real-life atrocities.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Kirkus, STARRED Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Hunger We Pass Down\u003c\/i\u003e, examines terrifying generational trauma passed from mothers to daughters in a Chinese Canadian family…Intertwining this dysfunctional family saga with cruel historical reality and spectral revenge, Lee chillingly exposes the monstrous price of women's survival.”\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Shelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jen Sookfong Lee summons all the monstrous, ferocious power of the gothic to tell a story you don’t dare look away from. This is the kind of book that eats your sleep.” \u003cb\u003e—Kelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The Hunger We Pass Down \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the path of trauma through several generations of women, as it mutates and adapts like a living thing, terrorizing in perpetuity. But as much as it’s a story about the brutal grip of intergenerational trauma, it’s also very much about the bonds forged by this pain. Poignant and biting and haunted by all manner of unsettling spectres, this one really packs a punch.” \u003cb\u003e—Ainslie Hogarth\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherthing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger We Pass Down\u003c\/i\u003e, Jen Sookfong Lee deftly leads readers through an intergenerational story of women and the ways in which they are haunted by societal expectations of femininity, motherhood, daughterhood, and unattainable perfection. You will fall in love with the characters as much as you will be haunted by them. Prepare to be pulled apart.” \u003cb\u003e—Jessica Johns\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Cree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The Hunger We Pass Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a hauntingly lyrical portrait of grief, trauma, and motherhood. Jen Sookfong Lee's novel is as terrifying as it is beautiful, and it will linger with readers long after the final page.” \u003cb\u003e—Monika Kim\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Eyes are the Best Part\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jen Sookfong Lee has crafted a grueling story where evil is thrust into a family like a knife, unasked for and unprovoked. There are sparks of humanity and love and kindness, but they're merely hopeful flickers against a matte black sky.” \u003cb\u003e—Alex Gonzalez\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003erekt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Every woman is a ghost story in Jen Sookfong Lee’s masterful new novel \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger We Pass Down…\u003c\/i\u003eLaced with delicious dark wit, piercing insight and unbridled female rage, this terrifying tale will hold you in its tightening grip until the very last word.”\u003cb\u003e —David Demchuk\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJen Sookfong Lee \u003c\/b\u003eis a Chinese-Canadian author whose books include the International Dublin Literary Award nominee and Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Conjoined, The Hunger We Pass Down, The Shadow List, Finding Home, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSuperfan, \u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year. The co-host of the literary podcast Can’t Lit, she also acquires and edits for ECW Press.  She was born and raised in Vancouver, where she continues to live with her son, and can be found online at sookfong.com.","brand":"Erewhon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233685156069,"sku":"NP9781645662815","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781645662815.jpg?v=1767739867","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-hunger-we-pass-down-isbn-9781645662815","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}