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Title:Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Author:Jamie Ford
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 290 pages
Published:January 27th 2009 by Ballantine Books
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Book Club. War. World War II
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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.

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Original Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
ISBN: 0345505336 (ISBN13: 9780345505330)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Henry Lee, Keiko Okabe
Setting: Seattle, Washington(United States) Puyallup, Washington(United States) Minidoka, Idaho(United States) …more Washington (state)(United States) …less
Literary Awards: Montana Book Award (2009), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009), David J. Langum Sr. Prize Nominee for American Historical Fiction (Director's Mention) (2009), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2009)


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"Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" is as saccharine and overly sentimental as the title suggests. It is historical fiction for the Nicholas Sparks set -- an emotionally heavy-handed novel that is well told, but not particularly well written. There are some diamonds in the rough, though: the historical aspects of the novel are very interesting; the relationships depicted in the book, while not always believable, are complex; and, the issues related to cultural identity and racial

I wanted so much more from this book.........but sadly I just did not get it. This could have been a wonderful historical novel but it ended up being a cute love story and perhaps I expected too much from the book in the first place and therefore was disappointed with the read.I was really looking forward to this book because it was about a period of US history in World War 2 involving the detention of US citizens of Japanese background which I knew very little about and was looking forward to

I had heard lots about this book, but had not put it on my TBR list. So when I saw the audio at the library, I figured...what the heck, may as well try it! I might not have finished it if I had an alternative book in the car to read. Sometimes the reader annoyed me when he said the main character's (Henry's) words with a Chinese accent (inconsistently at that!) .... since Henry had been born in the US.I usually do not like when an author switches back and forth from one time period to another,

"Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" is as saccharine and overly sentimental as the title suggests. It is historical fiction for the Nicholas Sparks set -- an emotionally heavy-handed novel that is well told, but not particularly well written. There are some diamonds in the rough, though: the historical aspects of the novel are very interesting; the relationships depicted in the book, while not always believable, are complex; and, the issues related to cultural identity and racial

The subject matter of this novel had a great deal of potential, but Jamie Ford never managed to make me care what happened to these stilted, boring characters. I sometimes wonder how such books become bestsellers. I have absolutely no doubt that I will have forgotten everything about this book by this time next week.

Hotel made me cry, made me laugh and brought me joy. It's a beautifully written and tender story about first love, the human experience surrounding racial divides, generational conflicts, and the internment of Japanese Americans. You won't be disappointed with Hotel.