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| Airs September 30 - November 2, 2009 |
Sixty-seven years ago, in 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an
executive order that created Japanese internment camps. In Hotel on the Corner
of Bitter and Sweet author Jamie Ford paints the story of a Chinese boy who falls
in love with a Japanese girl just as the world they have always known begins to
fall apart.
Among the real-life elements behind this story is the fact that Jamie’s own father
had to wear an “I am Chinese” button when he was little, so that he wouldn’t be
mistakenly sent to an internment camp.
This is a gripping, poignant story that brings to life a terribly unjust time in our
nation’s history in a potently visceral way.
executive order that created Japanese internment camps. In Hotel on the Corner
of Bitter and Sweet author Jamie Ford paints the story of a Chinese boy who falls
in love with a Japanese girl just as the world they have always known begins to
fall apart.
Among the real-life elements behind this story is the fact that Jamie’s own father
had to wear an “I am Chinese” button when he was little, so that he wouldn’t be
mistakenly sent to an internment camp.
This is a gripping, poignant story that brings to life a terribly unjust time in our
nation’s history in a potently visceral way.
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2009 |
