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Author Quotes: “Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet


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is reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet  by Jamie Ford for September 20.

The story begins with old Henry Lee standing in 1986 in front of the Panama Hotel reminiscing about a visit to the hotel when he was a 12 year-old boy. The hotel was located between Seattle's Chinatown and Japantown. For over 40 years the hotel had been boarded up and abandoned. The new hotel owner discovers in the basement the belongings of thirty-seven Japanese families who had once lived in the hotel during the internment. Henry wondered if he might find his own broken heart among the precious possessions.
Oscar Holden
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/holden-oscar-1887-1969

Grace Holden (Oscar's daughter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbrv4TAkEM
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2505

Panama Hotel
http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/story-of-the-week/2003/java-jolt.html

Sabro Ozasa -- architect
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/2684/

Floyd Standifer -- jazz trumpet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVIbig1QrU

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    • BExtraordinaire Calendar
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  • Past Reads
    • 2021 >
      • The Mysteries
      • The Long Petal of the Sea
      • The Silent Patient
      • The Broken Heart of America
      • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
    • 2020 >
      • Where the Crawdads Sing
      • Death of a Red Heroine
      • Age of Light
      • Beneath the Scarlet Sky
      • Next Year in Havana
      • What the Wind Knows
      • Simon the Fiddler
      • The Dutch House
      • Dear Edward
    • 2019 >
      • Caleb's Crossing
    • 2018 >
      • Educated
      • To Have and To Have Not
    • 2017 >
      • A Gentleman in Moscow
    • 2016 >
      • The Mare
      • Fates and Furies
    • 2015 >
      • Citizens of London
      • Euphoria
      • The Blue Flower
      • Being Mortal
      • Waiting for Snow in Havana
      • All that is Solid Melts into Air
      • All the Light We Cannot See
    • 2014 >
      • On Such a Full Sea
      • A Canticle for Leibowitz
      • The Luminaries
      • The Lowland
      • Alice Munro shorts
      • The Goldfinch
      • The Round House
      • Salvage the Bones
    • 2013 >
      • The Monuments Men
      • Wild
      • The Great Fire
      • A Time of Gifts
      • Sweet Tooth
      • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
      • To the End of the Land
      • The Casual Vacancy
      • Canada
      • The Light Between Oceans
    • 2012 >
      • One Amazing Thing
      • Bossypants
      • The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
      • Rules of Civility
      • Cutting for Stone
      • Just Kids
      • Red Badge of Courage
      • Lost on Treasure Island
      • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
      • The Children's Book
    • 2011 >
      • The Cellist of Sarajevo
      • Food Rules
      • Freedom
      • Unbroken
      • The Painted Veil
      • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
      • Elegance of the Hedgehog
      • Soul Mountain
  • Highlights
    • The Complete List
  • ReaderRec