Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford, 2009
A widowed Chinese-American man watches a Japanese parasol lifted from a hotel basement and is carried back to the girl he loved in 1942 Seattle.
Jamie Ford
The Panama Hotel is real: in 1986 its owner uncovered belongings Japanese American families had stored in the basement before the war, and the discovery gave Ford his plot.
Feels like memory, nostalgia and longing.
Some kinds of care are a controlled descent, steered as gently as possible.
But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it’s how you spend your time on the way down that counts. Books by Jamie Ford
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