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

4.0

This book was short, but sweet. I loved the way the story was told. Not by one narrator, but through the eyes and experiences of so many Japanese women who traveled to America to meet their husbands and hope for a good life. The writing style is "some of us...all of us....one of us." It makes them sound like more of a collective community, but with varying stories. The writing was so good and almost sounded like poetry at times. The things these unnamed, anonymous women went through during their lives was so vivid that even with the barest of descriptions I could see them in my mind. They saw not only their own personal lives change, but a change in their communities and in the world. Each story was unique, despite the use of "some of us". Definitely go read this wonderful book.