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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