The Hunger We Pass Down - Jen Sookfong Lee - Erewhon Books

''Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online cloth diaper shop, her resentful teenage daughter Luna, and her screen-obsessed son Luca, 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. It's a relief when Alice wakes up one morning and everything has been done. The counters are clear, the kids' rooms are tidy, orders are neatly packed and labeled. But no one confesses they've helped, and Alice doesn't remember staying up late. Someone-or some thing-has been doing her chores for her. Alice should be uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who begins to share their haunted family history from Alice's great-grandmother, a comfort woman during WWII, through to Alice herself. But the family demons, both real and subconscious, are about to become impossible to ignore''--

Product Specs:
EAN/ISBN: 9781645662815

Contributor: Jen Sookfong Lee

Dewey: 813.6

Category: Mothers and daughters ; Memory ; Single mothers ; Chinese ; Canada ; Psychological fiction ; Horror fiction ; Novels ; Family secrets ; Generational trauma

Harmonized Code: 4901.99.0075

Category: Sex & Gender | Feminine

Publish Date: 08/25/2026