The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka tells the extraordinary, heartbreaking story of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides in the 1940s
The Swimmers
From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic comes a novel about memory and loss, mothers and daughters, the stories that make up a life, and what happens when they start to unravel
When The Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka's powerful, deeply humane and critically acclaimed first novel about the Japanese-American experience during the Second World War, based on a true story