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In a Shared Voice: The Wives of Los Alamos and The Buddha in The Attic

by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

“. . .these two groups of women are indeed sisters under the skin, and these authors are sisters as well.” Ellen Prentiss Campbell on connecting Nesbit and Otsuka through their use of first-person plural.


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[Reviewlet] The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka

by Anne Clinard Barnhill

A finalist for the National Book Award, Julie Otsuka’s innovative novel The Buddha in the Attic pushes the bounds of narrative form with a collective narrator and a resistance to fixed fates. By inviting the reader to consider what could have happened, instead of what did, Otsuka makes her complicit in the fate of the story’s mail-order-brides.



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