Forgive me for gushing, but it's been a while since I've read such a wonderful book, that I won't be able to help myself. Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka was different than I expected. It is a small book, but is jam packed with beauty.
It is a meditation on the experience of a group of Japanese brides coming to America in the early 1900s. We follow them on their journey and then through various successes and disappointments of life up to the internment camps of WWII. It is told with such honesty and yet such delicacy for these women who lived and loved and lost so much.
Otsuka shows the passage of time with the changing of seasons in a way that is beautiful and makes you forget the individual suffering of these women for a moment.
Overall, this small book is one I would highly recommend.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Close Your Eyes
Amanda Eyre Ward's books are the kind of stories that I can read in a few days. They pull you along and don't let you put them down. Close Your Eyes was no different.
After her mother is murdered in their home and their father goes to jail, Lauren grows up unable to trust in love and relationships. Meanwhile her brother, Alex, believes in his father's innocence and will not give up proving he did not kill their mother.
As Lauren suffers from panic attacks, she is pulled into the story of her mother's death and eventually we uncover the truth.
After her mother is murdered in their home and their father goes to jail, Lauren grows up unable to trust in love and relationships. Meanwhile her brother, Alex, believes in his father's innocence and will not give up proving he did not kill their mother.
As Lauren suffers from panic attacks, she is pulled into the story of her mother's death and eventually we uncover the truth.
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