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Reader recommendation: When the Emperor Was Divine

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks. 

By Anna Cooper, Irvington, N.Y.

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I just finished When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka – a wonderfully elegiac story of a Japanese-American family interned in Utah during World War II. Otsuka’s "The Buddha in the Attic," which I read as a companion piece, is also fabulous.

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