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

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford

Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 254291 Users | 20201 Reviews

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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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HopeHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an absorbing story of hope and love. It is set against the politically tumultuous period of World War II, where we experience the alienation forces between the Chinese, Japanese and America people as they live together in the United States. Henry is a Chinese-American boy who lives in Chinatown, Seattle and is close friends with the only other non-white student at his school. That friend is Keiko, a Japanese-American girl who lives in Seattles

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

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

I'm always a little behind the curve when it comes to reading blockbuster NYT bestsellers. I think a part of me resists because I love finding "little" books that deserve kudos and talking about them. But I had heard so many good things about THE HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET that I bought it, though I sat on it a while before I cracked it open to read. Once I did, I was hooked instantly by the wonderful character of Henry Lee, a 12-year-old boy in Seattle's Chinatown during the early

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.

I wanted so much more from this book.........but sadly I just did not get it. This could have been a wonderful historical novel but it ended up being a cute love story and perhaps I expected too much from the book in the first place and therefore was disappointed with the read.I was really looking forward to this book because it was about a period of US history in World War 2 involving the detention of US citizens of Japanese background which I knew very little about and was looking forward to

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