Book Club: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

The hosts of the Book Club is still meeting on Zoom for the time being.

This month's selection is Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford**

**If you purchase this book from Amazon through the Amazon Smile program, HSGP will benefit. Click on this link: https://smile.amazon.com/ (https://smile.amazon.com/?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwhsgporg-20)

from Amazon:

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, 40 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.

The Book Club meets on the 4th Saturday of every month.

Henry Geist and Vici Duarte are your hosts.

Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9145355110

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