{"id":5581,"date":"2005-09-29T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:02","slug":"the-door-to-bitterness-by-martin-limon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-door-to-bitterness-by-martin-limon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Door to Bitterness by Martin Lim\u00f3n [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Door-to-Bitterness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30684\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Door-to-Bitterness.jpg\" alt=\"Door to Bitterness\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>Two American GIs stationed in Korea get caught up in a complicated casino robbery \u2013 and the layers only thicken from there. \u2018Course, where there are GIs, there are prostitutes \u2013 don\u2019t know if that says more about the GI mindset or the annoyingly perpetual stereotypes of Asian women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-09-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 29, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/door-to-bitterness.jpg\" alt=\"Door To Bitterness\" title=\"Door To Bitterness\" width=\"128\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5582\" \/>Two American GIs stationed in Korea get caught up in a complicated casino robbery \u2013 and the layers only thicken from there. \u2018Course, where there are GIs, there are prostitutes \u2013 don\u2019t know if that says more about the GI mindset or the annoyingly perpetual stereotypes of Asian women. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-09-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 29, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,37,60,6535],"tags":[3598,84,6608,341,3966,11,3967,216],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-korean","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-colonialism","tag-door-to-bitterness","tag-friendship","tag-martin-limon","tag-mystery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Door to Bitterness by Martin Lim\u00f3n [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-door-to-bitterness-by-martin-limon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Door to Bitterness by Martin Lim\u00f3n [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two American GIs stationed in Korea get caught up in a complicated casino robbery \u2013 and the layers only thicken from there. \u2018Course, where there are GIs, there are prostitutes \u2013 don\u2019t know if that says more about the GI mindset or the annoyingly perpetual stereotypes of Asian women.   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