The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for "The Buddha in the Attic,

a precise, poetic novel that tells the story of Japanese picture brides brought

to California from Japan in the early twentieth century. In a series of eight

slim, self-contained chapters, Otsuka crafts a first-person plural voice that has been described as incantatory."

–PEN/Faulkner Foundation

By Julie Otsuka