Description:Outside the old Panama Hotel in Seattle, Henry Lee watches a crowd gathering as personal belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps are retrieved from the hotel's basement. Henry recalls his WWII prep school days at the exclusive Ranier Academy, where he developed ...
This book is written about the time of Japanese Internment camps along the West coast of the U.S. At first, I was skeptical that this would be a political rant about the injustice of the American system. But instead the writer focuses on the relationship of a Chinese boy and a Japanese girl in Seatt...
I wanted so much more from this book.........but sadly I just did not get it. This could have been a wonderful historical novel but it ended up being a cute love story and perhaps I expected too much from the book in the first place and therefore was disappointed with the read.I was really looking ...
I think I might instead read When the Emperor Was Diviine and /or Color of the Sea.I chose to read When the Emperor Was Divine. Review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/203528541This I can highly recommend. I just cannot get convince myself that I will enjoy "Hotel on the Corner of Better and Sw...
I tend to enjoy novels that flash back and forth from past to present, and this novel was no different (though "present" is 1986). The story features Henry, a Chinese man in his fifties who lives in Seattle. The bulk of the events take place in the early 1940's during the heart of WWII, when Henry w...
This is a brilliant, heartbreaking book. The writing and tone is not quite as melancholy as Snow Falling on Cedars, but it's still really well done. I'm enjoying it so far, and I love the pov the author chose. There's one moment, where the protagonist is watching the Japanese being hearded out of Se...
An amzing book about love and relationships that stand the test of time. The story flips between the 1940's and the 1980's with Henry being the main character. This is Henry's story about his parents, being a Chinese-American and having a friend who is a Japanese-American. Relationships can stand th...
This was a very nice book. There are some beautiful moments that make you sigh, and some that make you realize how good we have it. We take so much for granted, so much that can be taken away through no fault or action of our own.Very hopeful throughout though.
This was a very sad book. It tells the story of an old man, Henry, but it also tells the story of his life when he was younger betweent the years of 1942 and 1945. It was a good book but it was one of the sadest ones I've ever read. I mean it has a sort of happy ending but not before one of the best...
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