The Buddha in the Attic

from Goldengrove

The Buddha in the Attic tells the story of Japanese emigration to America, beginning with the women who trustingly boarded ships to go to the husbands they had married by proxy, arranged by the matchmaker. Mostly they found that their new husbands were neither young, handsome nor rich, but just i...

from cameling

In the early 20th Century, picture brides from Japan came to the Western coast of the United States to marry men they'd only known through photographs and letters. Most came from poor families seeking a better economic life in the United States, believing their picture husbands to be the doctors,...

from rosalita

In The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka uses a strikingly original story form to explore the lives of Japanese mail-order brides summoned to California by strange men from their homeland who have emigrated before them. Rather than delve deeply into the stories of one or a handful of these women,...

from dallenbaugh

The Buddha in the Attic is a touching, actually heart rending, account of the lives of Japanese "picture women" coming to San Francisco in the early 1900's to meet their new husbands. The book tells of their dreams, the grim reality that greets them, and then their attempts to settle themselves i...

from DeltaQueen50

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka is a fast paced, informative novel about the lives of the picture brides that were brought from Japan to America in the early 1900's. Calling this book a novel is a rather loose definition. There is no specific plot or main characters in this book, it is to...