The Buddha in the Attic

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

Set in

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  San Francisco · United States

  Port of arrival for Japanese picture brides
  ★ primary
• California · United States

  Rural farms and cities where brides settled