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California Fiction Concentration camps Fiction Dementia Patients Fiction Japanese American families Fiction Japanese Americans Fiction Japanese California Fiction Mail order brides Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century Fiction Swimmers FictionOtsuka, Julie.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Otsuka, Julie
Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: This is a a novel 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 incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides' 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022