Jamie Ford is the author of the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which was awarded the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and was on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.
He will speak at the Timberlane Performing Arts Center on May 16 and at the Wright Museum of World War II in Wright Museum in Wolfeboro on May 17.
This event is the part of Community-Wide Read 2022: Bitter Injustice: The Japanese-American Internment of World War II and is made possible by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities.
The Bitter Injustice project will also include a special event with Dr. David Sakura, a third-generation Japanese American and New Hampshire resident who was sent with his family to the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. UNH English professor Monica Chiu, who specializes in Asian American studies, will moderate a discussion with Dr. Sakura at Plaistow Public Library on May 11 at 6:30 pm.
For more information about Bitter Injustice: The Japanese-American Internment of World War II, please visit the project website at https://bitterinjustice.wordpress.com/.
