Julie Otsuka at Book Passage, Corte Madera September 19, 2011

Julie Otsuka presents her novel Buddha In the Attic ($22.00). Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, this work traces their extraordinary lives.

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