NMLP P-017375 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka · Alfred A. Knopf · 2011

The US Knopf hardcover of 2011 is the true first edition; the novel went on to win the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-017375 for "The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017375, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).