The Buddha In The Attic By Julie Otsuka

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka is an exceptionally valuable novel that everyone should read at least once in their lives. It follows multiple Japanese women who came to the United States as picture brides during the early 20th century, a period that was especially difficult for Asian immigrants. Otsuka explores the many different struggles that these women faced, such as financial struggles and anti-Japanese discrimination. The Buddha in the Attic provides an incredibly truthful portrayal of the experiences of Japanese picture brides in the United States, a greatly fair representation of the immigrant experience, and is entirely useful as it offers a new awareness of the many injustices that Japanese people experienced, which is a

For both the well-being of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants living in the United States, as well as the growth of the country as a whole, this long-standing problem must be fixed. The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka, is entirely useful because it offers readers a new awareness of the history of Japanese people in the United States and the discrimination they faced in the early 20th century. The novel examines sabotage in the farming industry, racially motivated bullying, and segregation. Although Otsuka only explores a part of the much bigger problem of anti-Asian racism, her novel is still incredibly valuable as it promotes empathy and understanding, which inevitably leads to a more tolerant and just society. The first aspect that The Buddha in the Attic analyzes is the brutality that many Japanese families endured at the hands of resentful farmers for their success in the United States agriculture industry. Otsuka describes this violence in great detail, “Sometimes they drove by our farm shacks and sprayed our windows with buckshot, or set our chicken coops on fire. Sometimes they dynamite our packing