Friday, January 6, 2012

The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Author: Jamie Ford

Loved many things about this novel - the perspective of Henry in his fifties versus Henry at twelve and the backdrop of Seattle during WWII, the Japanese internment, Chinese society and Black jazz all intersecting. Racism and the absence of anticipated racism, denial, acceptance, grief, all sorts of emotions were touched on and gently revealed.

I look forward to his next novel.

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