Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel / Jamie Ford.
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered in Seattle, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345505347
- ISBN: 0345505344
- Physical Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 2019 Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, c2009. Includes reading group guide. Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | 850L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 15 145257. |
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Subject: | Fathers and sons > Fiction. Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 20 of 22 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Sikeston Public.
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- 2 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Sikeston Public Library | F F75 (Text) | 34140000023475 | Fiction | Available | - |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
NEW 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.