How We Disappeared

A twenty-first–century twelve-year-old seeks the truth behind his grandmother's trauma in this moving novel of family, love, memory, and the toll of war.

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 "co...