A group of young Japanese women come to America as "picture brides," to be wed to husbands who are strangers in Japanese-American author Julie Otsuka's second novel.
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5 fiction finalists for the 2011 National Book Award
The five books in the running for the 2011 National Book Award for fiction
3. "The Buddha in the Attic," by Julie Otsuka
