<p>Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Ford's follow-up to his "New York Times" bestseller "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" tells a powerful tale of two soulsNa Chinese-American boy with dreams for his future and a film actress escaping her haunted pastNboth seeking love, hope, and forgiveness.</p>

Songs of Willow Frost

Jamie Ford

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

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Love and Other Consolation Prizes

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

In 1986, the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps in the US were discovered in the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl with whom he forged a bond of friendship as a youth, and so he embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

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<p>In 1986, the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps in the US were discovered in the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl with whom he forged a bond of friendship as a youth, and so he embarks on a journey of self-discovery.</p>

Genre Fiction

Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, 12-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday William and the other orphans are taken to the theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her features, William is convinced that the movie star is his mother, Liu Song. Determined to find Willow, and prove his mother is still alive, William escapes from Sacred Heart with his friend Charlotte. The pair navigates the streets of Seattle, where they must not only survive, but confront the mysteries of William's past and his connection to the exotic film star. The story of Willow Frost, however, is far more complicated than the Hollywood fantasy William sees onscreen.

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1909, Seattle. At the World's Fair a half-Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle's famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki-san, a Japanese maid sold into servitude.On the eve of the new World's Fair in 1962, Ernest looks back on the past, the memories he made with his beloved wife while his daughter, a reporter, begins to unravel their tragic past.

Contemporary

1909, Seattle. At the World's Fair a half-Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle's famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki-san, a Japanese maid sold into servitude. On the eve of the new World's Fair in 1962, Ernest looks back on the past, the memories he made with his beloved wife while his daughter, a reporter, begins to unravel their tragic past.

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet: a novel

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Songs of Willow Frost

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Songs of Willow Frost

Songs of Willow Frost

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet: a novel