Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By Jamie Ford

I did not expect to like this, but I was WRONG, I loved it! I loved Henry, as a kid, as an old man, I loved that even as a young boy he wasn't afraid of the 'un-known/ un-liked'!

Would I recommend it? To my mom, yes, to my best friend, yes, and even to my book club!

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.