Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Ranked #8 in Jazz, Ranked #24 in Asian — see more rankings.
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... more
Rankings by Category
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is ranked in the following categories:
- #52 in Beach Reading
- #53 in Book Club
- #69 in Charisma
- #63 in Chinese
- #74 in Historical Fiction
- #82 in Racism
- #29 in World War II
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