Seasons Performance Hall

Tuesday, May 4     7 P.M.

Sponsored by Inklings Bookshop

Jamie Ford’s debut novel,  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, has received numerous awards, including The Montana Book Award, the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, and it was the National #1 Book Club Pick for this past fall and winter. “Hotel” has become an international best seller, including achieving the #1 position in Norway, Italy, and Taiwan.  It has been translated into21 languages, including  Serbian!  The book has been used in high schools as a tool for studying the era and Northwest History.

         The Japanese internment of WWII comes alive in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, set in 1940’s Seattle’s International District.  Ford provides a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people.  This is a book you will want to share with others, and one you will long remember.

       The event will include readings, discussion, question and answers.  Copies of the book are available at Inklings Bookshop, 5629 Summitview Avenue, and will be available for sale at the event.

Call Inklings (965-5830) to reserve a space for you and your friends.

Visit Jamie Ford's Web Site