{"product_id":"buddha-in-the-attic","title":"The Buddha in the Attic","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to \u003ci\u003eWhen the Emperor Was Divine\u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn eight incantatory sections, \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003etraces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where the girls 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 in their homes; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Buddha in the Attic","offer_id":46274317779141,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-905490-87-5.jpg?v=1779672153","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/buddha-in-the-attic","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}