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

3.0

This book was about the many stories of the Japanese women coming to America to marry Japanese men already living here (generally in the SF Bay area). It begins just before the war and ends during the war when the Japanese Americans were taken away to camps. I liked the perspectives given, but the author did something strange and didn't write one story, rather she told them all at once. So, the paragraphs just become lenthgy lists of one sentence experiences. I found myself scanning because it was too disconnected.