Travels with Tavish

Here are some books reviews from the last few books that I read in Senegal and a few that I read during my 2-week quarantine period in Seattle: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet This novel is fantastic. It follows the life of a young Chinese boy, Henry, living in what is now Seattle's International District in the 1940's and his budding romance with a Japanese girl, Keiko, of whom his family does not approve who lives nearby in Seattle's former Japantown. Her family is sent to an internment camp; Henry tries to keep in contact with her as much as possible, but the gap eventually becomes impossible to bridge. The timeline of the novel jumps back and forth from Henry's past (the 1940's) to the present (1980's) where Henry is struggling to deal with the death of his wife (not Keiko) and the memories of Keiko that come flooding back when the long-lost possessions of interned Japanese families are found in the basement of a Seattle hotel. Reading about