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…
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…
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.
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…
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