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Author:

Tan, Amy.

Title:

The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan.

Edition:

Ballantine Books Trade paperback ed.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

2008, c2001

Description:

385 p. : ill., port. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Chinese American families--Fiction.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
China--Fiction.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnams, 2001. A conversation with Amy Tan and Reader's Guide: p. [371]-385.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0345457374 (pbk)
9780345457370 (pbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)238374188

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)