Product Details
Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 3 months ago
Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2009
Seller Description
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. "An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son and the depths and longing of deep-heart love."
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
ISBN: 9780345505347
Publisher Description
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered in Seattle, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife wi...
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