Tennis Outdoors

Read and Feed

Date: Every third Thursday - RSVP's are not required
Time: 6:30 P.M.
Cost:    Free
Leader:  Marion Glass
Location: Ted's Montana Grill, 4300 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA, 703-741-0661

Upcoming book is

February
The Book:  The Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, (historical fiction, 300 pgs paperback)

Discussion Lead: Ellen

Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, the author has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart. At the beginning of the story, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American.