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William Alexander once at the perfect loaf of bread – crispy, chewy, sweet and yeasty – and he vows to recreate it. The result is 52 Loaves, a yearlong experiment in baking, in which Alexander bakes the same loaf of bread week after week, tweaking his ingredients, techniques, cooking time, and so on. He grows and grinds his own wheat. He builds and earth oven in his backyard. He travels to France to bake his single loaf in the oven of an ancient monastery. And somewhere along the way he figures out, in the words of Voltaire, that perfect is the enemy of good. Funny, exasperating, and very entertaining!
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Jamie Ford discusses and signs Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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- Vroman's Bookstore
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- Pasadena ,
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Jamie Ford’s lyrical debut novel follows Henry Lee from Seattle's Japantown to World War II and back again. Henry comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel—once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown, and still standing today. It has been boarded up for decades, but 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 Henry back to the 1940s, at the height of the war. Does the parasol belong to his long-lost love Keiko, a girl who was swept up into the Japanese-American internment camps?
Join us for a literary evening as Ford discusses his debut novel, which Lisa See calls "impressive, bitter, and sweet."
