The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka
In the early 1900s, thousands of Japanese picture brides arrived in America, prepared to marry men from their home country whom they?d only seen in photographs. In her lean, haunting novel, Julie Otsuka follows a group of these women from boat to shore, as they first become wives, then laborers, and then mothers?before finally becoming suspects, ?traitors,? and internees during World War II . Narrated in the collective first-person, with a seeming cast of hundreds, The Buddha in the Attic is an incredibly moving self-portrait of a community. It?s also a master lesson in literary economy: Throughout the rhythmic, choral narrative, we see flashes of individual lives, and each of these brief anecdotes is as neat and as vivid as Hemingway?s story about the baby shoes. In just 129 pages, Buddha manages to have both the sweep of a history text and the sharp, mysterious intimacy of a box of flea-market snapshots. It's just gorgeous. ? ?Nina Shen Rastogi
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