Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.
“An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old
conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what
happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War
II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
“A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost
forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us
a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war—not the sweeping
damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts
and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written
book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make
you feel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of
Racing in the Rain
“Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and
timeless devotion.”—Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water
for Elephants
“A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and
Juliet . . . The period detail [is] so revealing and so well
rendered.”—The Seattle Times
“A poignant story that transports the reader back in time . . . a
satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.”—Deseret Morning News
“A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and
realism that is smooth and highly readable . . . Ford does
wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.”—The Oregonian
“Heartfelt . . . a timely debut that not only reminds readers of a
shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine
the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices.”—Kirkus
Reviews
“Ford’s story of an innocent passion across racial
barriers—and of the life of a man who forsook the girl he loved—is
told with an artistic technique that makes emotion
inevitable.”—Louis B. Jones
“A beautiful and tender masterpiece . . . a book everyone will
be talking about, and the best book you’ll read this year.”—Anne
Frasier
“A heartwarming story of fathers and sons, first loves, fate, and
the resilient human heart . . . marvelously evocative.”—Jim
Tomlinson
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