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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a historical novel by Jamie Ford. The story is told in two parallel storylines, one following 12-year-old Henry Lee's experiences during the Second World War, and the other depicting Henry 44 years later as a widower with a college-aged son.
Jamie Ford (born July 9, 1968) is an American author. He is best known for his debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. The book spent 130 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, and was also awarded best "Adult Fiction" book at the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.
It is also known as being the namesake of the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. The Panama Hotel was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for their contributions to promotion of mutual understanding between Japan and the United States on December 1, 2020. [7] [8] Panama and NP Hotels, side-by-side.
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Bittersweet Motel is a 2000 documentary film about the rock band Phish directed by Todd Phillips.With him covering the band's summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 summer tour of Europe.
Hotel is a 1965 novel by Arthur Hailey. It is the story of an independent New Orleans hotel, the St. Gregory, and its management's struggle to regain profitability ...
The story opens with two criminals, Kelso Black and Tommy Riviera, being pursued by the police. After evading the police by turning down a gravel road, Black and Riviera see an old hotel ahead and decide to stay there. After Riviera threatens an elderly man at reception at gunpoint, they are directed to room five of the hotel.
The Invisible Thread is an autobiography written by Yoshiko Uchida and published in 1991. The book is a memoir of her childhood during World War II. [1]It describes her childhood in Berkeley as a second-generation Japanese American [2] and her life after she and her family were sent to a Japanese internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor.