Friday, July 25, 2014

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

This was a beautifully written book that bounced back and forth between the early 1940's and the mid 1980's.  Henry is a Chinese boy with parents who are against anything that is not Chinese.  He met a girl, Keiko, who was Japanese and made a connection with her.  She and her family were sent to an internment camp and they kept in touch, but time passed on.  In the present time an old hotel was being renovated and items that people who were sent to the internment camps could not take were hidden there.  This brought up memories for Henry and this is what moves the story along.  I will never cease to be amazed at how people treat people, how through out history we have treated other Americans who have a different skin color or background.  Again, just a beautifully written story.

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