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Julie Otsuka's long anticipated follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine ("To view Emperor catching on with educators and students in vast numbers is to grasp what will need to have happened at the outset for books like Lord of the Flies and To Wipe out a Mockingbird" - The NY Times) is a travel de make of market and accuracy, a novel that tells the story of several young women helped bring over from Japan to San Francisco as 'picture brides' almost a century before. In eight incantatory portions, The Buddha in the Attic traces their remarkable lives, of their arduous quest by vessel, where they exchange photos of these husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; with their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first evenings as new wives; with their backbreaking work picking berries in the domains and scrubbing the flooring surfaces of white women; with their struggles to master a new dialect and a fresh culture; with their experience in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who'll in the end reject their traditions and their background; to the deracinating arrival of war. In dialect that has the make and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream. From the Hardcover release
