Like Justin Torres' We The Animals, The Buddha in the Attic is a slim, lyrical book that demands to be read aloud. And like Torres', Otsuka's stories will haunt you; The Buddha in the Attic describes the experiences of Japanese immigrants to California in the decades leading up to World War II.Quotable line: "We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed."
