Julie Otsuka
Japanese-American novelist whose When the Emperor Was Divine is a quiet, powerful account of Japanese-American internment. The Buddha in the Attic, a novel told in a collective first person, won the PEN/Faulkner Award. She is an important voice in Japanese-American literature.
Works
- When the Emperor Was DivineJapanese-American family torn apart by internment during World War II
- The Buddha in the AtticLyrical chronicle of Japanese mail-order brides arriving in early twentieth-century California
- The SwimmersInterconnected lives of competitive swimmers navigating identity across generations