Julie Otsuka

From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic comes a novel about memory and loss, mothers and daughters, the stories that make up a life, and what happens when they start to unravel. "Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself." For the people who swim there...

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka tells the extraordinary, heartbreaking story of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides in the 1940s. After the First World War, a group of young women is brought by boat from Japan to San Francisco. They are picture brides, promised the American Dream, clutching photographs of the husbands they...

The critically acclaimed novel about the Japanese-American experience during the Second World War. It is four months after Pearl Harbour and overnight signs appear all over the United States instructing Japanese Americans to report to internment camps for the duration of the war. For one family, it proves to be a nightmare of oppression and alienation. Explored from varying points...