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Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel / Jamie Ford.
Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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- ISBN: 9780345505330 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0345505336 (acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
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| Subject: | Fathers and sons > Fiction. Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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The son of a Chinese American father, Jamie Ford is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Songs of Willow Frost and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.