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02020nam a2200373Ia 4500 001 573A8AB26BF411DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20100120073657 008 080805r20082001nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0345457374 (pbk) 020 $a 9780345457370 (pbk) 035 $a (OCoLC)238374188 040 $a KEC $c KEC $d SILO $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3570.A48 $b B6 2008 100 1 $a Tan, Amy. 245 1 $a The bonesetter's daughter / $c Amy Tan. 250 $a Ballantine Books Trade paperback ed. 260 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c 2008, c2001. 300 $a 385 p. : $b ill., port. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnams, 2001. 500 $a A conversation with Amy Tan and Reader's Guide: p. [371]-385. 520 $a Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known.... In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headsrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion -- all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother's past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness. 650 0 $a Chinese American families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Chinese American women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women immigrants $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z China $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $v Fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214040835.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20100120073657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=573A8AB26BF411DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search