Lee, Jing-Jing <br/><br/>
How we disappeared 
/ Jing-Jing Lee 
 - Toronto, Canada  : Hanover Square Press  , c2019. 
 - 348 pages  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a 'comfort woman.' After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. In the year 2000, twelve-year-old Kevin is sitting beside his ailing grandmother when he overhears a mumbled confession. He sets out to discover the truth, wherever it might lead, setting in motion a chain of events he never could have foreseen. Weaving together two time lines and two very big secrets, this stunning debut opens a window on a little-known period of history, revealing the strength and bravery shown by numerous women in the face of terrible cruelty. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comfort women---Fiction<br/>Last words---Fiction<br/>Widows----Fiction<br/>Villages---Fiction<br/>Human trafficking----Fiction<br/>Military offenses---Fiction<br/>World War, 1939-1945----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Singapore---History----Fiction<br/>Singapore---History---Japanese occupation, 1942-1945----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC LEE