![]() ![]() When the Emperor Was Divine, published in 2002, captures the experience of a Berkeley family evacuated from the West Coast to a Japanese internment camp in 1942 with breathtaking restraint. ![]() ![]() Otsuka came east to study art at Yale, and some years later ended up in the MFA program at Columbia, where she began writing her first novel. Her father was an electronic engineer in the aerospace industry her mother worked as a lab technician in a hospital before having Julie and her two younger brothers. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and moved to Palos Verdes when she was nine. I have a favorite table in the back, which is where I wrote both my books,” she says.īut the material for Otsuka’s first two novels is rooted in the West Coast. “No internet access, no music, no outlets, and the coffee refills are endless and free. Novelist Julie Otsuka is an Upper West Sider, with a regular spot at her neighborhood café, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. ![]()
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