Praise for The Hunger We Pass Down
"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." —Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
“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.” – Kirkus, STARRED Review
"The Hunger We Pass Down chronicles 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." —Ainslie Hogarth, author of Motherthing
“In The Hunger We Pass Down, 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.” —Jessica Johns, author of Bad Cree
“The Hunger We Pass Down 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.” —Monika Kim, bestselling author of The Eyes are the Best Part
“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.” —Alex Gonzalez, author of rekt
“Every woman is a ghost story in Jen Sookfong Lee’s masterful new novel The Hunger We Pass Down. . . . Laced 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.” —David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother
Jordan Peele's Us meets The School For Good Mothers in 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.
“Genuinely frightening story of rape, abuse, and neglect. A bold story of intergenerational trauma that creates spooky scares out of real-life atrocities.”-Kirkus, STARRED Review
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 something-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.
Sharp and incisive, The Hunger We Pass Down traces the ways intergenerational trauma transforms from mother to daughter, and asks what it might take to break that cycle.
Jordan Peele's Us meets The School For Good Mothers in 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.
“Genuinely frightening story of rape, abuse, and neglect. A bold story of intergenerational trauma that creates spooky scares out of real-life atrocities.”-Kirkus, STARRED Review
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 something-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.
Sharp and incisive, The Hunger We Pass Down traces the ways intergenerational trauma transforms from mother to daughter, and asks what it might take to break that cycle.
Editorial Reviews
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940195569082 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 09/30/2025 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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