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Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet a novel Cover Image Large Print Book

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet [large print] : a novel / Jamie Ford.

Ford, Jamie. (Author).

Summary:

Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this novel tells the story of widower Henry Lee, his immigrant Chinese father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781410414977
  • ISBN: 1410414973
  • Physical Description: 507 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2009.

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General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 15 145257.

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Subject: Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Fiction.
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Jazz > Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction.
Genre: Large print books.
Historical fiction.

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Moore County Library LGPT FIC FORD (Text) 48198000497038 Adult Large Print Fiction Checked out 08/20/2025
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