Julie Otsuka
PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and National Book Award finalist for The Buddha in the Attic, and author of When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka began writing at the age of thirty. She is a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a favorite among book clubs. Read Full BiographyBooks by Julie Otsuka:
The Buddha in the Attic
2012 PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and 2011 National Book Award Finalist, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as 'picture brides' nearly a century ago.
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- "One Book, One Philadelphia Explores Japanese American History" –The Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Julie Otsuka on Her Family's Wartime Internment in Topaz, Utah" –The Daily Beast
- Julie Otsuka in Granta
- "Tragedy of the Picture Brides" –The Daily Beast
- "Coming to America, Lured by a Photo" –The New York Times
