Best-selling author Jamie Ford will speak at the Lake Forest Country Club, 200 Lake Forest Drive in Hudson, at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The event is free and open to the public. His novel, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet," is the story of two families living in the Pacific Northwest during World War II, one of whom is sent to a Japanese internment camp. Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865. He grew up near Seattle's Chinatown, and now lives in Montana with his wife and four children. For more information, call The Learned Owl Book Shop at 330-653-2252.