Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A NovelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See “A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain 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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... girls he loves - one for now , one forever . Set against the backdrop of old Seattle , Love and Other Consolation Prizes is a tenderly defiant testimony to the soaring value of a human being , even the most forgotten among us . " -KATHY ...
... girls he loves - one for now , one forever . Set against the backdrop of old Seattle , Love and Other Consolation Prizes is a tenderly defiant testimony to the soaring value of a human being , even the most forgotten among us . " -KATHY ...
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... Girl in Translation " Ford weaves another rich tapestry of history and family drama in this cliff - hanging tale .... Hope and fate , laughs and tears : Songs of Willow Frost has it all . " -IVAN DOIG , author of The Bartender's Tale ...
... Girl in Translation " Ford weaves another rich tapestry of history and family drama in this cliff - hanging tale .... Hope and fate , laughs and tears : Songs of Willow Frost has it all . " -IVAN DOIG , author of The Bartender's Tale ...
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... racial barriers and of the life of a man who forsook the girl he loved — is told with an artistic technique that makes emotion inevitable . " -LOUIS B. JONES , author of Ordinary Money " I loved it ! Hotel on the Corner of.
... racial barriers and of the life of a man who forsook the girl he loved — is told with an artistic technique that makes emotion inevitable . " -LOUIS B. JONES , author of Ordinary Money " I loved it ! Hotel on the Corner of.
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... girls , who weren't allowed , for reasons unknown to Henry . Before the first bell , the pair of boys would take the flag from its triangle - shaped rack in the office and head to the pole in front of the school . There they'd carefully ...
... girls , who weren't allowed , for reasons unknown to Henry . Before the first bell , the pair of boys would take the flag from its triangle - shaped rack in the office and head to the pole in front of the school . There they'd carefully ...
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... girl , probably in his grade , about his height ; she was hidden behind long bangs and the black strands of hair that framed her face . She sprayed the trays with hot , steaming water and put them in the dish rack , one by one . As she ...
... girl , probably in his grade , about his height ; she was hidden behind long bangs and the black strands of hair that framed her face . She sprayed the trays with hot , steaming water and put them in the dish rack , one by one . As she ...
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