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

4.0

An absolutely breathtaking book - written entirely in the first-person - which is both peculiar and hauntingly direct. The effect is poetic and isolating, clearly making the point at the heart of the book, i.e. that we (as readers, Americans, Californians) are complicit in the racism which kept these stories hidden for so long. The descriptions of life in the Central Valley and San Joaquin Delta are particularly haunting.