Review: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

Did Not Finish The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.

This novel is inspired by the life stories of Japanese immigrants who go to America in the early 1900s.

I do not doubt the sincerity of the author in writing this book, but I find it tedious to be reading one that uses "we" all the time. It is not exactly a first person narrative, but rather a collective term to encompass all. Sorry to say, it gets on my nerves after a while reading a story that gathers the characters as one whole big community. When it is not "we, we, we", it is "us, us, us". At 20% of the book, I can take it no longer, I close the book and is done with it.


Publisher: Anchor; 1st edition (March 20, 2012)
Publication date: 20 Mar 2012

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In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

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