The April book selection for the next gathering of the Glen Morris Book Club is The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
Goodreads.com shares this synopsis:
"In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel's basement for the Okabe family's belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country."
GM Book Club will meet Monday, May 12, at 2:30pm in the Robson Community Room at Glen Morris United Church. All are welcome to be a part of this interesting and always fun group and you may contact Lyanne Lynch for more information at lynch2003@rogers.com or 519-622-5487. Please note this will be the last book club gathering until September.
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