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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Publisher's Summary
New York Times best-seller.
“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)
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, 40 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.
Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet:
“A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war - not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.” (Garth Stein, best-selling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain)
“Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.” (Sara Gruen, best-selling author of Water for Elephants)
“A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet.... The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.” (The Seattle Times)
“A poignant story that transports the reader back in time...a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.” (Deseret Morning News)
“A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable.... Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.” (The Oregonian)
Critic Reviews
“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 set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war - not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.” (Garth Stein, best-selling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain)
“Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.” (Sara Gruen, best-selling author of Water for Elephants)
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- Christopher
- holiday, FL, USA
- 04-02-09
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet
superb writing! this story kept me listening far beyond my daily normal fill of audio books.
I felt the story was a little slow to start but after the story is established you WILL be hooked!
Excellent narration and fine details to the era of potrayal.
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- Robert
- Atlanta
- 02-06-09
Engaging and Lovely. Highly recommend.
A poignant, endearing, complex, imaginative, and well-executed plot with wonderful fully-developed characters. Flash backs from adult lives are interleaved seamlessly and cleverly as two 12/13 year olds come of age under very difficult circumstances. Some characters are seriously flawed in realistic ways. One set of flawed parents is complemented by another set of parents cut out of whole cloth. Adult friends of the children add a special dimension in unexpected ways. Some of the objects and events loom large and carry their heartbreaking meaning from the west coast internment of Japanese-American US citizens. I would be surprised if you don't simultaneously laugh and get misty-eyed from the last few words spoken at the end of the book. Audio is very well narrated. It is as good a young adult/parent/any-adult book as is the excellent The BookThief.
38 of 42 people found this review helpful
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- Bev S. Weiler
- Broomfield, CO
- 09-06-09
Wow! What a book! What a narrator!!
This was one of the best books I've heard since The History of Love. The narration was spot on (except for perhaps when speaking a couple of the Japanese phrases, but this may have been intentional). Feodor Chin's ability to vary his voice across the years and for each of the characters, not only in tone and accent, but in the more subtle matters of "how" something would be said, made listening to this book a rare pleasure. Jamie Ford's writing is crisp, engaging, and insightful. It allows the listener/reader into a world seldom seen by outsiders, and events of our nation's history that are still rarely spoken about. The diverse cast of characters is three-dimensional and believable, and Ford skillfully avoids stereotypical portrayals and easy solutions to diffucult issues. The book is already on order to join my hardback collection, but I will keep the audiofiles with the very short lists of books worth another listen.
19 of 21 people found this review helpful
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- C.
- Santa Fe, NM, United States
- 07-16-11
Captivating, Beautiful, Poignant
Wonderfully written by Jamie Ford and perfectly narrated by Feodor Chin, this was one of the best listens I've ever experienced. Mr. Chen's voice kept me interested and his voices were perfect. While the book's main characters were personally affected by the shameful and cruel treatment of the American Japanese during the World War II years, the book did not come across as accusatory, but more of a factual telling of how things were during those times.
There was a permanent "Relocation Center" near my home town and even though many young men from our area fought in WWII, the American Japanese earned the respect of the native residents for their quiet dignity as they endured their confinement. This book helped me to see things more clearly through the eyes of the American Japanese people.
I definitely recommend this book and will listen to it again.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Ella
- toronto,, Ontario, Canada
- 09-01-09
How often do you read a feel good book about WWII?
This is a book about racism. It toggles between two periods of time. Part of the book is in the 1940's, WWII, where Henry, a twelve year old Chinese Boy and Keiko a Japanese American girl meet in the school kitchen of a white American public school. The other part of the book is in 1986, when Henry is an adult with his own adult child, Marty, who has finished university and is engaged to be married. When I think of WWII, I think of Germany and their invasion into the European countries and their murder of Jews and other European groups totaling well over 11 million people. I never think of America, Japan and China. This book has changed that. However this book is not about war, it is about love, about hope, about overcoming hate and expected standards for the times. This book is about the pure friendship of two innocent children who have the misfortune of meeting each other in very tumultuous times. It's about how Henry overcomes the hate his parents feel for the Japanese and how Keiko overcomes the loss of her home and transfer of her family to interment camps. It is a war story, well told with factual information, but cloaked in the protection and innocence of the love of two children. Not a page-turner by any means, but a story that will leave you thinking long after it's over.
The narrator Feodor Chin was excellent as well. Easy to listen too, proper accents etc.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful
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- Raelynn Elliott
- 05-31-09
Truly Bitter and Sweet
I have never written a review before but felt compelled to write on this book. This was the most beautifully touching book I have ever listen to. Wonderful story and great narrator.
13 of 15 people found this review helpful
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- Sherry
- Redlands, CA, United States
- 05-25-09
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
This book is well worth your time. I enjoyed every minute I spent listening to this book. I left feeling like I had gained a new insight into the Japanese internment during World War II and an appreciation of how far our society has come. The narration was equally enjoyable! Great listen!
13 of 15 people found this review helpful
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- Patti
- Chittenango, NY, United States
- 05-01-10
Great Historical Fiction
I did not know much about this side of WWII history and I found it fascinating. My lack of knowledge did not impede my understanding or appreciation of this story. I know even less about jazz music and that was okay too, as that theme just connected the chracters in the story.
This book was read just after "The Help" and there were similarities between the two books that I had not known about ahead of time. As much as I tire of being the big, bad white majority at times, these stories did provide a side of history that we can learn from. With hindsight, I was ashamed by the prejudices tht were accepted at that time of life and I wish not to repeat them.
The narration was very well done. Switching between the ethnicity of the characters added much to the story.
This story not only brought together a variety of races of people, but also generations. Henry could not make right the broken relationship with his own father, but he made right the damaged relationship with his own son. And with the risk of spoiling the end, the son did wonderful by his father.
This was one of those enjoyable books I really did not want to see end. Get it and sit back for a great lesson in not oly history but also humanity.
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- LarryD
- 09-14-09
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- Donna Dickran
- East Farmingdale, New York United States
- 08-16-09
Don't miss this one
Here's this years feel good book. A sweet love story set in a time in our history as a nation that is not mentioned too often. An era as a nation that we would like to forget,but there is a good history lesson here along with an interesting take on the Japanese /Chinese relationships.
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