A good, sweet story and an easy read. The writing style is simple but effective, and the historical fiction part of it was convincing. I enjoyed it a great deal. The plot turned on some rather unlikely coincidences -- well, actually it didn't. They happened, but they didn't have to for the story...
The story is interesting, but I don't like the writing. I also don't understand the decision to italicize some words and not others (eg siu beng vs kimono). The writing bordered on self-indulgent at times. It was also pretty redundant. But the story was interesting enough to keep me reading.
This book is to me, what Love in the Time of Cholera should have been! Life long love, which started at a young age, finally comes full circle later in life. The difference here is a that I actually liked Henry!!! As well, this one is told in flash backs, between 1942-1945 and 1986 rather than th...
Like "Snow Falling on Cedars," this story helped fill in the gaps in my public school education about the shameful history of the Japanese internment. It's sad that history textbooks left that out for so long.. Sweet (if - little sappy) story with great characters and fascinating details of Seattle ...
Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet starts with the discovery of property belonging to Japanese American citizens in the basement of a Seattle hotel. Watching this discovery is Henry Lee, a Chinese American who was only a child when World War Two began. The items take him back to his school da...
Henry was a young boy growing up in Seatle's International District. Though his father was staunchly nationalistic Chinese, he insisted that Henry attend the local white private school and speak only "the American," even at home and effectively cutting off all communication between them as his fathe...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is the story of a Chinese man, Henry Lee, who is an adolescent during WWII, and the young girl he fell in love with as a teen, Keiko Okabe.Keiko and her family are relocated to internment camps, but she is never far from Henry's mind -- despite his father's intens...
CHEESE! I was very disappointed at the way this book developed. It was over-written and extremely soap-operatic, everything was too convenient and not believable at all (EVERYONE knows each other in downtown Seattle..every time Henry goes out he bumps into the same bullies, yet later he is startled...
For me Jamie Ford's heralded, multiple award-winning Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was an entirely luke warm reading experience from start to finish. The emotional heat that should have brewed within a story of this nature considering the volatile subject matter failed to materialize. I ne...
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