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

2.0

The story of the women who left Japan to become wives in the US in the early 1900s is a poignant one. The tragedy of their deportation to the camps in California and elsewhere is real. That said, this book becomes phenomenally repetitive, with what amounts to page after page of lists. "They did X, they did Y, they didn't want X, the dreamt of Y, they never saw Z." It becomes so tedious that the touching parts of the experiences are drowned out by the sheer minutiae of the lists.