From: "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
"A modest three bedroom home with a basement--still unfinished after all these years" (pg. 8).
"He had seen the fires in Nihonmachi and people burning their possessions--ashen reminders of who they had been, who they still were" (pg. 90).
"Within a week, the evacuation of Bainbridge Island was already old news--within a month it was almost forgotten, on the surface anyway--everyone was doing their best to go about business as usual" (pg. 119).
"His father would probably be more concerned if he knew the purpose of the call--to meet Keiko's family" (pg. 119).
