2011 One Book Selection Announced!
One Book Update (2011)

Jamie Ford’s bestselling first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is the Richardson Reads One Book selection for 2011. In his novel, Ford has written a powerful account of the internment of our Japanese citizens during WW II as well as a tender love story. The Library owns many copies of the book in paperback, large print and audio formats, and it will be promoted throughout Richardson in 2011 as a springboard for community discussion.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an affecting portrait of Seattle’s “Chinatown” and “Japantown” and their struggles for identity when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II.