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Aug 14, 2022Jyclibrary rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Pretty good book. It took awhile to spark my interest but once it did I wanted to stay with it to the end.
Aug 02, 2022Nategee324 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Age Rating: 18+ After thoroughly enjoying Ford’s debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, I had high expectations for his next book. While this did not quite reach that level, it was still a good read. The viewpoint of this…
Jun 06, 2018Gerilibrary57 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
very good
Feb 07, 2018
One a once-a-year outing to the movies, William swears the beautiful woman on the silver screen is his mother. The other orphans know this can't be true.
Sep 13, 2017DorisWaggoner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
While Ford's first book was all but perfect, I found this one rather disappointing. Several times I almost gave up. Yet there was enough authenticity about the sad story of William and his mother Liu Song to keep me going. I kept…
Aug 16, 2017jiggyq rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
a great moving story
Jun 19, 2014kkelly00 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Follows the son of a singer who gave him up to protect him. He and a female friend search for mother in Seattle, but imperils her in the finding.
Mar 29, 2014lpodell rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
So disappointing. Poorly written. Nothing like his first.
Jan 19, 2014
A Chinese boy William is left in a Seattle orphanage in the 1920s. In 1934, when he sees a poster advertising a variety show with a singer named Willow Frost, he believes it?s his mother. That begins his journey to discover who she is and…
Dec 07, 2013mz4bibliofile rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
This tale is sadly so much like the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. While the story is moving it is almost formulaically tragic and sentimental. The story lacked an authenticity that his first book had. I read it but found that…
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Oct 30, 2013paulette4317 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet is one of my favorite books. This book is good, but I don't feel he wrote as well as he did with his first novel.
Oct 11, 2013Nilz rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Loved his last book - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. And loved this book too. Fantastic, writer.
Sep 24, 2013pokano rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Jamie Ford writes another winner, this time about a young Chinese American boy in an orphanage in the mid 1930's, who sets out to find the truth about who his mother is and why she left him. Ford makes us care about the characters and…