Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsukaâ€™s long-awaited follow-up to ,When the Emperor Was Divine, is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as â€œpicture bridesâ€ nearly a century ago.,In eight incantatory sections, ,The Buddha in the Attic, traces the picture bridesâ€™ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.
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The Buddha in the Attic