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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford

Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages

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Title	:	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Author	:	Jamie Ford
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 290 pages
Published	:	January 27th 2009 by Ballantine Books
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Book Club. War. World War II

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In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel's basement for the Okabe family's belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.

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Original Title:	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
ISBN:	0345505336 (ISBN13: 9780345505330)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Henry Lee, Keiko Okabe
Setting:	Seattle, Washington(United States) Puyallup, Washington(United States) Minidoka, Idaho(United States) …more Washington (state)(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	Montana Book Award (2009), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009), David J. Langum Sr. Prize Nominee for American Historical Fiction (Director's Mention) (2009), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2009)

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Okay, I am not the target audience for this book. One of my favorite teachers in high school was sent to one of the internment camps as a child. Ive met Fred Korematsu, whose challenge to internship went all the way to the Supreme Court back in the day. Ive read that opinion. I know several members of the excellent legal team that got his conviction vacated. I know the Justice Department lied to the Supreme Court about the known danger the Japanese-Americans represented. My grandmother bought a

Set in Seattle during the Japanese internment during WW2. This book has a sweeping feel to it. It starts out slow - but not slow in the sense who feel like you are waiting for paint to dry - but slow in the "This is really going somewhere" kind of way. It does go somewhere by the way. Once the ball gets rolling, this book sweeps you up into the lives of two friends who made a promise to see each other again.The book begins as Henry Lee stands in front of the Panama Hotel. This hotel has been

Beautiful love story in wartime USA. I had no idea how the Japanese were treated in the USA during the war, but of course it was no different from how other countries treated the enemies that lived among them. The only thing I didn't like was that Henry was portrayed as an 80 year old while he was only 56 in the story.

Set in Seattle, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet tells of the forbidden friendship between a Chinese-American boy named Henry Lee and a Japanese-American girl named Keiko Okabe during the Second World War. Henry and Keiko are both just twelve years old when they become friends in 1942. Life is difficult for both of them. They face racism and prejudice on a daily basis and Henry's father does not approve of the friendship. After the devastation of Pearl Harbour, the US government decides

A rich, tender, personal story so touching and full of history I should know, but didn't. Pulled at my heartstrings and made me longingly linger over and over the last few chapters.Set durring the height of Nihonmachi district (JapanTown) area of Seattle, Washingtom. You jump from 1986 to 1942 thoughout the story. To tell the tale of Henery Lee an intelligent, brave, 12yr old Chinese American quickly growing into a man thru struggling WWII times. He has a strained relationship with his father

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Release Date 1/27/2009, $24.00 I've just finished reading Jamie Ford's forthcoming novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and am still basking in the glow. The characters are fully realized, the title is a real attention grabber, and the story fleshed out with plenty of local and period detail. Ford provides an intimate look at life on the homefront during WWII from the uncommon perpective of an earnest Chinese-American boy and his

After reading how many people absolutely adore this book, I almost feel a little guilty giving it a "meh" review. But....a "meh" review it deserves, and that's what it shall get from me.First, the good: My sense is that this story has raised awareness of the internment camps that many Japanese-Americans were placed in during WWII. As someone who believes that without knowledge of history we're doomed to repeat it, I think that's timely and important knowledge for people to have. The story of