Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (42 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JAMIE FORD is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, 'who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, 'where he adopted the Western name "Ford," thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle's Chinatown, he now lives in Montana 'with his 'wife and children.www.jamieford.com

Copyright (c) 2009 by James Ford

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Ellington and Edward K. Duke Ellington c/o LICENSEBOX--A MODA Entertainment Company. Duke Ellington Estate Executor: Paul Ellington Frontispiece photo courtesy of the National Archives,

photo no. 210-G-C158.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ford, Jamie.

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet: a novel / Jamie Ford.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-51250-5

1. Fathers and sons--Fiction. 2. Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction. 3. Widowers--Fiction. 4. Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3606.O737H68 2009

813'.6--dc22 2008044398

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Page

Chapter 1 - The Panama Hotel (1986)

Chapter 2 - Marty Lee (1986)

Chapter 3 - I Am Chinese (1942)

Chapter 4 - Flag Duty (1942)

Chapter 5 - Keiko (1942)

Chapter 6 - The Walk Home (1942)

Chapter 7 - Nihonmachi (1942)

Chapter 8 - Bud's Jazz Records (1986)

Chapter 9 - Dim Sum (1986)

Chapter 10 - Lake View (1986)

Chapter 11 - Speak Your American (1942)

Chapter 12 - Jamaican Ginger (1942)

Chapter 13 - I Am Japanese (1986)

Chapter 14 - The Basement (1986)

Chapter 15 - Executive Orders (1942)

Chapter 16 - Fires (1942)

Chapter 17 - Old News (1986)

Chapter 18 - Marty's Girl (1986)

Chapter 19 - Urne (1986)

Chapter 20 - Home Fires (1942)

Chapter 21 - Hello, Hello (1942)

Chapter 22 - Downhill (1942)

Chapter 23 - Tea (1986)

Chapter 24 - Records (1942)

Chapter 25 - Parents (1942)

Chapter 26 - Better Them Than Us (1942)

Chapter 27 - Empty Streets (1942)

Chapter 28 - Sketchbook (1986)

Chapter 29 - Uwajimaya (1986)

Chapter 30 - Camp Harmony (1942)

Chapter 31 - Visiting Hours (1942)

Chapter 32 - Home Again (1942)

Chapter 33 - Dinner (1986)

Chapter 34 - Steps (1986)

Chapter 35 - Sheldon's Record (1942)

Chapter 36 - Camp Anyway (1942)

Chapter 37 - Moving (1942)

Chapter 38 - Stranger (1942)

Chapter 39 - Thirteen (1942)

Chapter 40 - Sheldon Thomas (1986)

Chapter 41 - Waiting (1942)

Chapter 42 - Farewell (1942)

Chapter 43 - Angry Home (1942)

Chapter 44 - Letters (1943)

Chapter 45 - Years (1945)

Chapter 46 - Meeting at the Panama (1945)

Chapter 47 - V-J Day (1945)

Chapter 48 - Broken Records (1986)

Chapter 49 - Hearthstone (1986)

Chapter 50 - Tickets (1986)

Chapter 51 - Sheldon's Song (1986)

Chapter 52 - New York (1986)

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