A group of my students are reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet in an after school book club. When I heard about it, I had to read it.
The plot moves back and forth between Seattle at the time of the Japanese internment and the 80s. Henry Lee, a Chinese-American, arrives at the Panama Hotel and realizes that items left there by Japanese families have personal meaning for him. He flashes back to a relationship he had with a Japanese-American girl and how they were separated as she moved to an internment camp.
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I'm having great discussions with my fifth grade girls about their reading. My stepdaughter read it in a community college English literature class. My mom read it when it was recommended by a friend.
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