Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

from tangledthread

Advanced Reader's Copy: This is a coming of age story of Henry Lee, a Chinese American widower who grew up during WWII in Seattle. We meet Henry in his mid-50's, in 1986, as a new widower in front of the Panama Hotel, where a huge stash of Japanese items have been discovered during a restoration ...

from DeltaQueen50

The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford is the story of Henry Lee, jumping back and forth in time from 1942 when Henry is twelve to 1986 when Henry is a recent widower. The book explores his complex relationships with his parents in the past and his son in 1986. The book also de...

from DeltaQueen50

The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford is the story of Henry Lee, jumping back and forth in time from 1942 when Henry is twelve to 1986 when Henry is a recent widower. The book explores his complex relationships with his parents in the past and his son in 1986. The book also de...

from tututhefirst

This one has been sitting on my shelf for several years.  When our book club chose it for the October meeting, I decided to get an early start.  I've read several books about the Japanese internment camps.  All have been written from the point of view of the Japanese.  But I k...

from cameling

It was very difficult to put this book down once I started reading it. Set in Seattle, the story centers around Henry Lee, a 2nd generation Chinese boy who is sent to an all-white elementary school where he later meets Keiko Okabe, a 2nd generation Japanese girl. Alternating between the war years...