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One of those guilty pleasure books for me. I don't think this high literature. I don't think it makes any major point politically although there is opportunity to do so. But, it still weaves in a poignant teenage romance between a Chinese boy and a Japanese girl, both citizens of the US, during a particularly divisive time. It's interlaced with a 40 years later plot, where the now-grown old Chinese boy tries to find his old flame and reconciles with the son he's never been comfortable with. Ther
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Just by coincidence, this is the second book in a row that I have read with the subject being the effects of Executive Order 1099 and the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Given today's immigrant topics, these two books have been very timely.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet has two timelines occurring: 1986 where we meet Henry Lee, who has just lost his wife Ethel. As he stands watching current activity outside the Panama Hotel, he is emotionally taken back to his childhood i ...more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet has two timelines occurring: 1986 where we meet Henry Lee, who has just lost his wife Ethel. As he stands watching current activity outside the Panama Hotel, he is emotionally taken back to his childhood i ...more
Henry Lee is a Chinese American man whose wife has just died after battling cancer for 7 years. Someone has recently purchased the old Panama Hotel that has been boarded up since WWII. Inside they make a discovery of items that have been stored there by the Japanese that were sent to interment camps during WWII.
The story then flashes back to Henry as a child that was sent on scholarship to the white school by his parents. There he meets Keiko Okabe a Japanese American child that has been sent o ...more
The story then flashes back to Henry as a child that was sent on scholarship to the white school by his parents. There he meets Keiko Okabe a Japanese American child that has been sent o ...more
In 1942 twelve year old Henry Lee is bewildered by the changes sweeping across the world, the country and even his own neighborhood. The son of Cantonese-speaking Chinese immigrants, Henry has received a scholarship to a prominent private school, where he is the only non-white student until Keiko Okabe, a beautiful young Japanese-American girl, joins his class.
The two form a friendship, bonding over shared work hours in the school cafeteria and a love of music and adventure. Henry knows that his ...more
The two form a friendship, bonding over shared work hours in the school cafeteria and a love of music and adventure. Henry knows that his ...more
3.5/5 - this is a fictional story about the friendship between a young Chinese boy and Japanese girl during the 1940s in Seattle. It goes back and forth between the 1980s and 1940s.
Wonderful,book. Made me cry on a plane. Sigh. Such a great read.
Absolutely loved this book.
Jun 22, 2013
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