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Reread August 26, 2013:
I enjoyed rereading this coming-of-age book of a first love. The story is as bitter and sweet as the title.
First read September 6, 2011:
Twelve year old Chinese-American Henry Lee meets Japanese-American Keiko Okabe as the only Asians in a Caucasian elementary school in 1942. Their friendship and sweet romance starts as the United States enters World War II, and the people of Japanese ancestry get sent to internment camps. Henry has to deal with the wrath of his father who ...more
I enjoyed rereading this coming-of-age book of a first love. The story is as bitter and sweet as the title.
First read September 6, 2011:
Twelve year old Chinese-American Henry Lee meets Japanese-American Keiko Okabe as the only Asians in a Caucasian elementary school in 1942. Their friendship and sweet romance starts as the United States enters World War II, and the people of Japanese ancestry get sent to internment camps. Henry has to deal with the wrath of his father who ...more
This book is very enjoyable for what it is. It isn't an exceptionally well written novel, or one that delves deeply into the issues or history that are the backdrop to the story, but the plot was extremely satisfying.
There are two timelines to the novel: the "present" (set in 1986) and the past, set between 1942 and 1945. The novel follows Henry, a first-generation Chinese boy in Seattle, who meets Keiko, a second-generation Japanese girl, at an otherwise all-white school. The two become friend ...more
There are two timelines to the novel: the "present" (set in 1986) and the past, set between 1942 and 1945. The novel follows Henry, a first-generation Chinese boy in Seattle, who meets Keiko, a second-generation Japanese girl, at an otherwise all-white school. The two become friend ...more
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