The Buddha in the attic

About this book

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

• fiction
• fiction, family life
• fiction, historical, general
• history
• japanese
• japanese americans, fiction
• japanese fiction
• mail order brides
• san francisco (calif.), fiction