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The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka · Booklabria

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The Buddha in the attic

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First published: 2011

Synopsis

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

Subjects: History
Historical
Family life
San francisco
Japanese Americans
Japanese
Set in: California
San Francisco
Time: 20th Century

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Edition: 1st ed.
Pages: 129
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0307700001

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