01490cam a2200277 4500 637827473 TxAuBib 20230206120000.0 081023s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008044398 9780345505330 acid-free paper 0345505336 acid-free paper TxAuBib Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel / Jamie Ford. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2009. 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during the Second World War. Among the fascinated crowd gathering outside the hotel, stands Henry Lee, and, as the owner unfurls a distinctive parasol, he is flooded by memories of his childhood. He wonders if by some miracle, in amongst the boxes of dusty treasures, lies a link to the Okabe family, and the girl he lost his young heart to, so many years ago. 20230206. Fathers and sons Fiction. Japanese Americans Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Seattle (Wash) Fiction. Historical fiction.