Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
Julie Otsuka's novel opens with an ensemble portrait of the community of lap swimmers at an underground pool and narrows to one woman's descent into dementia and her daughter's grief. Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
About the Author
Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist whose novel The Buddha in the Attic (2011) won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2012 and the Prix Femina étranger in France. The novel uses a remarkable collective first-person plural voice to tell the story of Japanese mail-order brides who emigrate to California in the early twentieth century. Otsuka's debut novel When the Emperor Was Divine (2002), about a Japanese American family's experience of internment during World War II, was widely acclaimed and has become a staple of American high school and college curricula. Read more →
