The Hunger We Pass Down

A Novel

Author  Jen Sookfong Lee
The Hunger We Pass Down

From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the long-unacknowledged demons that are passed down through four generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past.

Divorced 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. It’s all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night.

So it’s a relief when Alice wakes up one morning to find the counters are clear, the kids’ rooms are tidy, orders are neatly packed and labelled. But she doesn’t…