novel story - Jamie first author scores with Ford Hotel Corner of bitter and sweet

Jamie Ford has made a name in the literary world on its first attempt. Hotel Corner of bitter and sweet is to read a remarkable novel. A love story, a family saga, a story of growth in America during the Second World War, a history of America shame, take your choice. Here you find all this and more in the novel by Mr. Ford
The story moves smoothly between 1942, when Henry Lee is 12 years in the 1980s when Henry before his wife's death is cancer. Opening in 1986 and set in Seattle at the Hotel Panama, tells the story of the discovery of some junk, but other treasures in the basement. Henry is able, treasures to find his friend and young love, Keiko was one.
Panama was a part of town known as Japantown back in the early 1940s. Everything has been found by people. While these people are trying to prove their loyalty to America, they had burned all the valuable items, and buried the rest
U.S. citizens who are forced to "camp should go" because our countries fear that these people, these things hidden. Oh yes, this respectable, hard working, friendly people, without understanding why they targeted just happened to be Japanese! The detention of these persons is a dark time in American history. Our country was inhuman and shameful. The fear of the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, the origin of this action that the government as they felt that the needs of this group of people a threat as its relations with Japan could be considered.
The novel tells the story of Henry in his youth and his relationship with his parents. Henry grew experienced during the war and rationing has been reports of error of the battle, and everything a part of daily life. His parents despised, because the Japanese invasion of China they had and the islands are Chinese. Henry was a button that says he is Chinese wear. A student in a completely white school Henry was a kind of scholarship, his teaching by the fact that he worked in the cafeteria at lunch and after school hours, the caretaker was covered. Only, intimidation, and viewed with contempt by the other students, Henry is excited when a Japanese-American students from the school and they become very good friends. Keiko parents wind in the internment camps, and they trust each other and Henry, and soon are very close friends. It is a relationship that Father Henry Angers. It creates problems and a great tension in the house of Henry.
See Henry of the war, his country, his parents, and even changed the world. Henry is mentioned in the Japanese section of Seattle Nihonmachi or pulled later Japantown. Leaving the field to Chinatown in the environment go Keiko allows him to see things differently. In Japantown Henry is seen as part of the hostile group of its inhabitants. He experienced racism first hand again, but this time no white students in their school, but people who are very like him.
A support, but wiser man, Henry adults is the same as it was in his youth. He has just lost his wife to cancer and told how he also left work to care for her full time. Henry understands the relationship he had with his father and wants better for him and his son, Marty. This is no easy task, because Henry still working always to be an American of Chinese origin, while Marty has never known anything other than the American system. The accidental discovery of the elements of the Panama Hotel Henry inspired to share the story of Keiko with her son. Henry hopes their relationship when he declared, to improve its relationship with the Jazz. to slip as they were young, he used, and Keiko from the local jazz clubs.
Henry is a good man and loved his wife, but it was always a part of him that he is bound, for inexplicable reasons, the past and Keiko. He believes that this link will help to revive Marty. What Henry did, and how the things he help found in Panama, the story brought to a conclusion of an honorable and realistic, really shows the bitterness and the soft part of the life of this man and this wonderful novel.