<b>Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award</b> <b>For Fiction</b><br><b>National Book Award and <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize Finalist<br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book<br><br></b>A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of <i>When the Emperor Was Divine</i> that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, <i>The Buddha in the Attic</i> traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.