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Buddha in the Attic
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cerabe1
, March 21, 2015
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Riveting. I'm not Japanese, and I was born years after the events of this book took place, but I felt an immediate connection to the war brides in Otsuka's narrative. The struggle she describes is universal - a quest for for belonging and place, the yearning for love and family that is part of us all. I live in Arizona, where two of the internment camps were located; it was only after I read this that I realized I had driven past one of the camps on many trips out of town. I must return with fresh eyes after reading this account of the heroism of these women. An engrossing true life story, sparely and masterfully written.
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Diana Deverell
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Amazing use of the first person plural as narrator. Captivating!
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Carolyn Jolly
, February 14, 2013
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A clever use of 3rd person personal and first person accounts ground the story of picture brides from Japan sent to America to marry Japanese farmworkers. Otsuka covers an extensive breadth of time, territory, and emotion as she tells the story of the collective brides and their individual hardships in a book not much bigger than a novella. The accounts are historically correct and the book can be read as an account of Japanese women in pre-world war II America. Osuka's book can also be read as a unique, creative, attempt to tell the stories from a history we have all but forgotten.
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Scot Nakagawa
, January 30, 2013
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Otsuka uses historical accounts to tell a story about a group of Japanese women who immigrated to the U.S. as picture brides. Fooled by marriage brokers into believing they were leaving behind hardship in early 20th century Japan for the good life in America, they arrived to find husbands, years older than the men whose pictures they were carrying, who were expecting wives who would join them in the fields as laborers. Otsuka follows these women through years of farm labor and then to the internment camps during WWII. This is a story I've heard a hundred times or more. In the stories that have been shared with me, the Japanese Americans of this period are very near to be saints in their self-sacrificing devotion to family, America, and the Buddha. In The Buddha in the Attic, Otsuka presents us with real, whole people, remarkably resilient, accessible, diverse and full of flaws. That she is able to do so without dwelling on the stories of any of the women individually is a bit of a miracle that manages to makes her story a remarkably compelling read. I couldn't put it down and carried with me throughout my day, reading it in snippets whenever I could until finally I was able to sit with it, finish it, and immediately order her first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine.
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bilahkatz
, January 07, 2013
Julie Otsuka's story brings the pain of the Japanese internment to life with light prose that quickly grabs your attention so that you won't put the book down until the end. History books have never provided enough details of how the lives of individuals were upended or shown the emotional turmoil as well as this short but important novel.
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moongie
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Beautiful, simple prose, makes this novel unforgettable.
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Lea Anna
, August 30, 2012
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I beautiful little book. Otsuka has created a compelling look into the lives of Japanese picture brides and the struggles they went through in America. It is so touching and at times heartbreaking. I couldn't put it down.
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, August 08, 2012
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This is a small book that packs a lot of power. Julie Otsuka tells the story of many women in a unique and compelling way. What lives! and how fortunate I am in my very comfortable life! Buddha in the Attic is a real page turner and I wanted to just start over and keep on turning those pages. Really amazing!
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Eileen Flynn
, August 05, 2012
Beautifully written...impossible to put down
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ISBN:
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144
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.44IN
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5.18IN
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Copyright Year:
2012
Author:
Julie Otsuka
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