The city-wide One Book project returns for its 11th year, this time focused on Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic. The best-selling novel centers around a group of Japanese women brought to San Francisco as “picture brides” in the early 1900s. Otsuka, who recently received the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, will kick off OBOP with a free talk at the Central branch, followed by an original musical work inspired by the book and a dramatic reading by the Distant Voices Touring Theater.
Thu., Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., free, Central Branch of the Free Library, 1901 Vine St., 215-686-5322, freelibrary.org.
