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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: The international bestseller and word-of-mouth sensation

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The chapters set in 1942 reveal twelve-year-old Henry’s childhood difficulties with his father; his friendships with Sheldon, an African-American jazz-playing saxophonist, and Mrs. It was a sit up all night and keep turning pages kind of book which ended in a very satisfactory manner. Before reading this book, I knew nothing about how badly the Japanese in America were treated during the war. America was created with a written Constitution defining us as a Republic democracy with certain laws.

When I heard that my debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, was going to be published in Persian, my first thought was, “Fantastic!Also, whenever the leaders of my country say there’s someplace Americans shouldn’t go, I want to go there even more. He believes the item is somewhere among the hordes of forgotten objects in the basement of the hotel. Non-combatant German-American and Italian-American citizens were not placed into American concentration camps. Some of these mandated rights are about giving all citizens freedom to express ideas, religions, and culture, as long as there is no harmful coercion or illegal behavior, and as refined by the Supreme Court, without any interference from either the Federal or States' governments.

I so enjoyed seeing the boy Henry was (in the 1940s) interspersed with more modern chapters (1980s) so I also viewed the man he became. In 1942, while the world is fighting and killing each other these two are just managing to get through the day without being picked on, smacked around or abused because one is Chinese and the other, God forbid is Japanese. What an amazing book, it centres around two main characters – Henry a 2nd generation Chinese boy and Keiko also a 2nd generation Japanese girl, who both have traditional family backgrounds (Henry’s family insists that he speak English, although they speak only Cantonese, his father is an elder in the local community association, and his mother stays at home. Keiko and her family are sent to ready-made internment camps where they will stay for the next three years or so.

When he meets and begins to like a 12-year-old Japanese girl attending the same elementary school he is before the Japanese were forced into the camps, Henry has to make some immediate decisions about his father, his obligations to his Chinese society's traditions and what exactly being an American 'of color' and yet also a completely Americanized American-born citizen, is about. I found a LOT of inaccuracies in this book and many logical incongrities, but since I was driving while listening, I could not make notes on them. She makes it her mission to match cusomers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a beautiful, fascinating, tender and moving story from beginning to end. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his father; that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made years ago.

And sometimes hope s enough to get you through anything’ is very apt and appropriate for the main theme of the book is about love and how it can transcend over a number of years, no matter what is happening in the people’s lives. The author had 4 anachronisms: the book is set (in part) in 1986, and yet the son is in an "on-line" grief support group, and used the internet to look up a lost friend, and there is talk twice about digital conversion of records to CDs.Good Book Guide 'This is a moving, heart-rending story - to steal from the book’s title, bittersweet really does describe this tale. Peopled with wonderful characters, with a story that reaches to the very bottom of your heart, this is a novel not to miss. It’s also the story of immigrants who come to the United States, hoping for a better life for themselves and their children. With the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941 and the declaration of war between the USA and Japan, there is an overwhelming division between the Japanese and all other communities.

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