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The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Start date: January 28, 2017

Finish date: January 28, 2017

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May 31, 2017 Denise Cormaney rated it really liked it

Shelves: arlington-55plus-book-group

I finished this slim book in one sitting. I'm not sure what to say here. On the one hand, I don't like the rarely used first-person plural narrative. It feels like I'm reading about these intense experiences from 10,000 feet. I like to be on the ground and in the mind of a novel's characters. For me, a book hinges on whether or not there was at least one character I can relate to or at least root for. There isn't a single character in this book! Yes, people are named but you don't get to know or ...more

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Jun 12, 2014 Cat rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction

The way this book was written got in the way of my "seeing" these stories. I wanted to dig deeper, but it felt surface level, because there were just too many voices, too many stories. ...more

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Oct 18, 2012 Audacia Ray rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library-reads, fiction, read-in-2012

wow. I don't think I've ever read a mostly first but sometimes also second personal plural book pulled off this way (one exception - Reinaldo Arenas' The Doorman).

The Buddha in the Attic has both no main characters and thousands of them. Every sentence is its own story. stunning book. ...more

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