The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

These eloquent fragments summon a multitude of ghosts, evocative and human, reaching across history, across cultures, into the echoing spaces left by international events.

Extract

ON THE BOAT we carried our husbands’ pictures in tiny oval lockets that hung on long chains from our necks. We carried them in silk purses and old tea tins and red lacquer boxes and in the thick brown envelopes from America in which they had originally been sent.

Parallels

Jamie Ford by Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Michael Ondaatje by The Cat's Table
Kyung-sook Shin by Please Look After Mom

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