The Hunger We Pass Down

Trade Paperback – New

From the bestselling author ofSuperfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past.Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online business, a resentful teenage daughter, a screen-obsessed son, and a secret boyfriend, she can never get everything done in a day.So its a relief when Alice wakes up one morning to find the counters are clear, the kids rooms are tidy, and orders are neatly packed and labelled. But she doesnt remember staying up late to take care of things. As the strange pattern continues, she realizes someoneor somethinghas been doing her chores for her.

Alice knows she should feel uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who has started to share shocking stories from their family historybeginning with the horrors that befell her great-grandmother, who was imprisoned as a comfort woman in Hong Kong during the Second World War. But the familys demonsboth real and subconscious, old and neware about to become impossible to ignore.

Set against the gleaming backdrop of contemporary Vancouver, The Hunger We Pass Down is a devastating, horror-tinged novel about howunspoken legacies of violence can shape a family. It followsthe relentless spectre of intergenerational trauma as it is handed down from mother to daughter, andasks what it might take to break the cycleheroism, depravity, or both.