Host: Jenny Penner
Book: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
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Synopsis:
Henry Lee is a 12-year-old Chinese boy who falls in love with Keiko Okabe, a 12-year-old Japanese girl, while they are scholarship students at a prestigious private school in World War II Seattle. Henry hides the relationship from his parents, who would disown him if they knew he had a Japanese friend. His father insists that Henry wear an "I am Chinese" button everywhere he goes because Japanese residents of Seattle have begun to be shipped off by the thousands to relocation centers. This is an old-fashioned historical novel that alternates between the early 1940s and 1984, after Henry's wife Ethel has died of cancer.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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1 comments:
This looks like a really great book, Jenny! Bargain alert! I snagged a copy on Amazon for $6. I love a good deal... See you soon.
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