{"product_id":"how-we-disappeared-9781786074126","title":"How We Disappeared","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen her husband dies in the year 2000  Wang Di is forced into the solitary life of a widow in modern Singapore. But this new silence brings with it a surge of memories  taking her back to the brutal events of the Japanese invasion which altered the course of her life forever. Twelve-year-old Kevin is preoccupied with his own family worries; his father is suffering from depression  Kevin is being bullied at school  and his beloved grandmothers health is declining fast. And then  on her deathbed  she makes a surprising confession  one she never meant for Kevin to hear. Back in 1942  Wang Di is sixteen years old and forced into sexual slavery as a Comfort Woman. What she sees and experiences will haunt her present nearly sixty years later. Meanwhile  after his grandmothers death  Kevin sets about finding out the truth  a truth that will lead him to Wang Di; to the events of that brutal war and to a reckoning no one is prepared for and which can no longer be suppressed. They say the truth will set you free  but what if its horrors have been the very chains you have longed to escape from your whole life?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931002208309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1786074125","price":407.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781786074126.jpg?v=1794211454","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/how-we-disappeared-9781786074126","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}