However, in Otsuka’s case, “she is able to make us care about the crowd precisely because we can glimpse individual stories through the delicate layering of collective experience.” Accessed 10 July 2021.) Day also remarks that Otsuka has pulled off the challenging feat of a first-person plural narrative, which risks diminishing the reader’s ability to empathize with the subject matter. “The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka – review." The Guardian, 7 Apr. Critics have praised Otsuka’s style, with the Guardian critic Elizabeth Day commenting that the author writes “half poetry, half narration-short phrases, sparse description, so that the current of emotion running through each chapter is made more resonant by her restraint” (Day, Elizabeth.
Otsuka published several chapters of the novel as stand-alone essays in the literary journal Granta.
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