A review by somanybookstoread
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

3.0

I'm interested in checking out other work by Julie Otsuka because I found her prose to be beautiful. However, this book didn't do much for me because I think she made a bad decision in trying to pull off a first person plural point of view for so long. Then, strangely, after about 80 pages the POV shifted to third person. I was baffled and just couldn't get around that. Despite a POV that couldn't engage me, I found her descriptions to be lyrical and beautiful, so I suspect she could wow me under other circumstances.