Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet By: Jamie Ford
After the discovery of belongings in an old hotel, widower Henry Lee remembers back to the 1940s. Henry attended the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignored him, and he met Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Henry and Keiko's friendship and innocent love is interrupted when Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept. Forty years later, Henry Lee begins looking for signs of the Okabe family's belongings. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope.
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