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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
“A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.

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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 27, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9780345512505
  • Release date: January 27, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9780345512505
  • File size: 5065 KB
  • Release date: January 27, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9780345512505
  • File size: 1566 KB
  • Release date: January 27, 2009

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Levels

ATOS Level:5.7
Lexile® Measure:850
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4-5

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
“A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.

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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Random House Publishing Group

    Awards:

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 27, 2009

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780345512505
    Release date: January 27, 2009

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780345512505
    File size: 5065 KB
    Release date: January 27, 2009

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9780345512505
    File size: 1566 KB
    Release date: January 27, 2009

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 5.7
    Lexile® Measure: 850
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 4-5
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