Today Books At Twelve Ten Will Discuss At The Corner of Bitter And Sweet

Books at Twelve Ten will discuss At The Corner of Bitter and Sweet at about 12:10 today.  We are at the Main Library, which is just a few blocks along Tacoma Avenue (at the left of the top photo) from the site of the Tacoma Japanese Language Center.  A prolonged effort to preserve the Language Center recently ended.  The building was removed, and a sculptured wall with an historic marker will explain the past there.  My photos were taken before the groundbreaking for the present U of Washington Tacoma Branch Library, in the mid-nineteen nineties. 

At the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, places the characters, who live in Seattle near South Jackson Street, within the historic World War Two removal of people of Japanese Descent from the Western United States.  Pierce County Reads has chosen this book for its 2012 read, so Books at Twelve Ten chose to do their choice for the April Selection.  Our discussion should be a good one.