A review by meghan111
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

3.0

A detailed look at the lives of young women from Japan who came to American to marry, spanning from the early 1920s to World War II. Told in the collective voice, in a little over 100 pages, the breadth of experience of the Japanese immigrants is revealed, as well as the larger patterns of similarity. The constant use of 'we' in the descriptions of the lives of the women is an interesting technique. The repetition in the writing lends it strength; the sheer amount of detail reveals the research involved. Many of the individual sentences seem as though they have been taken from the letters these women must have written.