This was one of the Book Club meetings that was more about the food than the book. We had spicy asian soup, miso soup, steamed and fried rice, salad, bbq steak and mochi. We agreed that the book was good but it could have been great. The end of the book had an interview with the author and he stated that he wanted to write a love story not a deeply historical novel. He accomplished that but even the love story was wrapped up a little to neatly. I personally prefer more realistic endings and I admire authors who have the chutzpah to write them.
The book follows a Chinese boy who befriends a Japanese girl during World War II. She and her family are taken away to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. I found the locations of the internment camps personally interesting because my parents lived in Puyallup, WA for a while. I have been to those fairgrounds with my kids, blindly unaware that those same grounds were used at that time to hold Japanese American families during the war. It was an sad and interesting time in our history and it wasn't all that long ago.
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Wonderful relationships in Henry and Keiko, Henry and his father, Henry's mother and his father, and Henry and his own son are deep and touching. This story reveals the best and worst in relationships, the way we regard others, and the way we catch ourselves acting like our parents with our own children. This is a truly amazing read!
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