Otsuka's debut novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, won awards from the ALA and NY Public Library and was compared by The New York Times to To Kill a Mockingbird. In her long awaited follow-up, she tells the story of a group of women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago.
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