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

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The experience of Japanese-American citizens caught stateside in the wake of Pearl Harbor has become a dusty footnote to the conflict. In an interview featured in the ten year anniversary edition of the book, Ford opens up about the inspiration for the novel. This coming-of-age story about first love and forging one’s own way in the world, even against a parent’s wishes, is set against a backdrop of prejudice and misguided patriotism that rises to a crescendo after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1942.

For Leo Davies, a charming, brilliant barrister in one of London’s most prestigious chambers, life has been good.Henry also supports his son Marty at college, and welcomes Marty's girlfriend, a non-Chinese girl named Samantha, into their family.

Henry Lee, the son of Chinese parents in Seattle, Washington, is the only Asian child at his elementary school. An excellent book, and if you want to perhaps venture away from novels set in England during the Second World War period, then start with this book you will not be disappointed. At school, Henry helps out in the school canteen and it is when American-born of Japanese parents, Keiko begins to work there too that he realises just how different he is to his father.With a wonderful characterisation, mesmerising relationships, a breathtaking narrative and a story that will most certainly leave you wanting more, Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet is one of my highlights of the year. Finding a place for these camps were difficult due to various organizations such as labor unions and even American Indians. It is the story of a young chinese boy who is thrown together with a young japanese girl in Seattle during WW2.