Just a short post since I haven't posted in a couple days, but wanted to start thinking about some topics coming out of Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This is an amazing book, especially for the author's debut novel. It gives me hope that my debut novel might be decent, whenever I get around to writing it... Anyway, this is a really fun read for me on one account, because it takes place in wartime Seattle, which is where I happen to be living at the moment. Well, Seattle, that is, not the wartime part. Obviously. But Ford really knew his history and Seattle geography, so it is really fun to read about streets, sights and even shops and restaurants that I know and visit myself! On the other hand, while very interesting to learn about, this book brings up a very unhappy topic: the internment of the Japanese during WWII. The conditions these families were forced to live in is simply appalling. The loss of personal property, family heirlooms, memories, careers, and freedom to American citizens simply because of their ancestry just makes me so sad and, frankly, so embarrassed. How can we have treated people this way?
More on this after I finish, tomorrow.
Til then, Keep reading!
Sarah
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