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Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka is the author of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. Her writing often explores themes of community and identity.
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This novel tells the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides who arrive in early twentieth-century San Francisco. Their new lives are filled with demanding migrant work, struggles to adapt to a new culture, and children who distance themselves from their heritage. The women also face the looming threat of wartime internment.