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Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
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Mail order brides -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Japanese -- California -- Fiction.
Japanese American women -- Fiction.
PEN/Faulkner Award.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
Mail order brides -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Japanese -- California -- Fiction.
Japanese American women -- Fiction.
PEN/Faulkner Award.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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The Buddha in the attic / Julie Otsuka.
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Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Call #:
FICTION OTS
Subjects
Mail order brides -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Japanese -- California -- Fiction.
Japanese American women -- Fiction.
PEN/Faulkner Award.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780307700001
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
129 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book."
Summary:
In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "icture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land ... their arrival in San Francisco and the tremulous first nights with their new husbands ... backbreaking toil as migrant workers in the fields and in the homes of white women ... the struggle to learn a new language and culture ... giving birth and raising children who come to reject their heritage . . . and, finally, the arrival of war, and the agonizing prospect of their internment.
Awards:
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, 2012.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Women's fiction.
Novellas.
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3
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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