The Buddha in the Attic

Title	The Buddha in the Attic
Author	Julie Otsuka
Location	2nd Floor Social Sciences
Rating	Highly Recommended
Book Review	If you have any interest in what it might have felt like to be Japanese and living in CA in early 1900, this is a fabulous book.  What a thought provoking, emotionally stirring and very quick moving book this is. It begins with the arrival of Japanese women in the San Joaquin agricultural basin in the early 1900s by way of arranged marriages to farm worker husbands. It details their transition from young naive brides (period of naivety is very brief) to becoming hard working farm and domestic workers, then to the consequences associated with the conflicts of WWII and Japan bombing Hawaii.  The book is very well written; very fast paced, sad and occasionally humorous.
Submitted By	Linda Corcoran
Department or Major	Anderson Center for Economic Research
Status	Staff
Chapman Email	greeley@chapman.edu