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Apr 18, 2018pokano rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Another wonderful book by Jamie Ford, this time set in Seattle against the backdrops of two World's Fairs, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the 1962 Century 21 World's Fair. Although fictional, the novel is based on something that really happened: at the AYP, a baby was given away. In Love & Other Consolation Prizes, it's a 12-yr old who's given away, Ernest, a young man who is half Chinese and whose Chinese mother could not afford to keep him. Ernest ends up working as a houseboy in the swankiest brothel in Pioneer Square. The book alternates between his story back in the early part of the 20th Century versus his story in 1962. Is this story too much like Hotel at the Corner of Bitter & Sweet? I didn't care, loved the book!