{"product_id":"book-at03","title":"The Buddha in the Attic","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2011 National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to \u003ci\u003eWhen the Emperor Was Divine \u003c\/i\u003e(“To watch \u003ci\u003eEmperor\u003c\/i\u003e catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In eight incantatory sections, \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49339335704880,"sku":"BDat03","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/156551-at03-Square.jpg?v=1734020668","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-at03","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}