Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, 132 pages


This book is about Japanese brides coming to America in the early 1900s. It talks about the men they thought were coming to marry, the men they actually married, the lives they left behind, the children they had or didn't had, and finished up with the gathering up of Japanese immigrants in World War II to be put in concentration camps. It was an extremely fast read, giving different viewpoints, and just a quick overview. But I really enjoyed this book and plan on taking a deeper look into these section of American history.

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