About The Book!
a literary fictional novel
published on October 14,2003
The Author: Julie Otsuka
_Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She graduated from Yale University with a masters degree in the arts. After graduation, she pursued an unsuccessful career in the arts and moved on to writing fiction by age 30. She started by writing short stories, one of which was included in Scribner's Best of Fiction Workshops in 1998. Later she moved on to writing novels and has written two so far, When the Emperor Was Divine and The Buddha in the Attic. From these two novels, she has gained the Asian American Literary Award, the American Literary Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently living in New York developing and writing more novels for us to enjoy.