Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

The Buddha in the attic

Otsuka, Julie.

The Buddha in the attic - New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 9/12/2011 - 129 p. ; 20 cm.

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

'This is a Borzoi book.'

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Mail order brides -- Fiction.
Japanese -- California -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.