#AlisaReadstheWorld: Singapore

This is an incredibly important story about the Japanese occupation of Singapore during WWII. It's a personal story that borrows from the author's family history.... a lot of pain and generational trauma, but also hope and healing.

I walked into this story pretty naive, not knowing that one of the main characters is taken as a comfort woman, so there is a lot of rape in the book. It made me ponder how much raping there was during WWII. Axis and Allied troops alike. What an awful history the world shares.