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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Otsuka, Julie, 1962-     Subjects     Mail order brides -- Fiction.     Japanese -- California -- Fiction.     San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Otsuka, Julie, 1962-       by title:      The Buddha in the at...         MARC Display

The Buddha in the attic [electronic resource] / Julie Otsuka. by Otsuka, Julie, 1962- Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2011. Subjects Mail order brides -- Fiction.   Japanese -- California -- Fiction.   San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=2A6F41BA-7408-4EC5-AF88-59D8BF266324 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/524417-TheBuddhaInTheAttic.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/524417-TheBuddhaInTheAttic.mp3 ISBN:  9780307940766 (electronic audio bk.) 0307940764 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital. Requests:  0 Summary:  In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "picture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land ... their arrival in San Francisco and the tremulous first nights with their new husbands ... backbreaking toil as migrant workers in the fields and in the homes of white women ... the struggle to learn a new language and culture ... giving birth and raising children who come to reject their heritage . . . and, finally, the arrival of war, and the agonizing prospect of their internment.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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