The Buddha in the AtticThe Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka tells the extraordinary, heartbreaking story of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail order brides in the 1940s. After the First World War, a group of young women is brought by boat from Japan to San Francisco. They are picture brides, promised the American Dream, clutching photographs of the husbands they have yet to meet, and imagining uncertain futures on unknown shores. Struggling to master a