Tan, Amy.
The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan. - New York : G.P. Putnam's , c2001. - 353 p. ; 24 cm.
Wilson's Fiction Library Journal Booklist starred
San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
Adult Follett Library Resources Adult
0399146431 (acid-free paper) 0399146857 (limited ed.)
00062673
Chinese American families--Fiction.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Chinese American families--Fiction.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
China--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
PS3570.A48 / B6 2001
813/.54
The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan. - New York : G.P. Putnam's , c2001. - 353 p. ; 24 cm.
Wilson's Fiction Library Journal Booklist starred
San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
Adult Follett Library Resources Adult
0399146431 (acid-free paper) 0399146857 (limited ed.)
00062673
Chinese American families--Fiction.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Chinese American families--Fiction.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
China--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
PS3570.A48 / B6 2001
813/.54