This is a beautiful, but sad, story written in a flowing way that is easy to read and hard to put down. In the initial pages, I thought to myself, "where is this story going? How is the author going to maintain a story line throughout the length of the book?" But then I had that ah-ha moment w...
For my December core book I read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This novel is about a young Chinese boy named Henry, who is growing up in Seattle’s 1940s. He must keep his only friend, a Japanese girl named Keiko Okabe, a secret from his parents who abhor the Japanese for their brutal i...
Though this book seems like it was written for YA, the themes are definitely mature. Set in Seattle during the Great Depression and early days of film, you do get a sense of the time from the Chinese immigrant perspective.There is William, and when the story is in his voice, it truly shines. The ...
It took me several chapters to connect with, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, mainly because I was unfamiliar with the setting and context. However once I appreciated this I was hooked. It is a moving story of 'first love' between a Chinese boy Henry, and a Japanese girl Keiko, living in ...