What a neat little story! Totally got me interested in reading more historical fiction, of which I was previously a little hesitant to get into. I liked that it has perked my interested in learning more about the oppression of the Japanese Americans, and also Chinese Americans that existed in our country during WWII. I appreciated the authors attention to details in staying with facts when it came to anything more than the fictitious characters and their dialogue, with the exception of the few anachronisms that other reviewers have mentioned concerning the 1986 time period. It was also well written, and a compelling story that draws on the heart strings a bit. 
 Quotes I liked: 
 "The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best." 
 "I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward." 
 "He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter." 
 "Hope can get you through anything." 
 "I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me" 
 "But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts." 
 "He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about." 
 "Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much." 
 "I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home." 
 "Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person." 
 "After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand." 
 "A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. 
 "So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man." 
 "Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We don't agree, but we will show our loyalty by our obedience."