Julie Otsuka
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Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
Books by Julie Otsuka
From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic comes a novel about memory and loss, mothers and daughters, the stories that make up a life, and what happens when they start to unravel
Julie Otsuka's powerful, deeply humane and critically acclaimed first novel about the Japanese-American experience during the Second World War, based on a true story
Julie Otsuka tells the extraordinary, heartbreaking story of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides in the 1940s
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