TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The bonesetter's daughter SN - 0399146431 (acid-free paper) AV - PS3570.A48 B6 2001 U1 - 813/.54 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - G.P. Putnam's KW - Chinese American families KW - Fiction KW - Chinese American women KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Women immigrants KW - Women KW - China KW - sears KW - Mother-daughter relationship KW - Immigrants KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N1 - Wilson's Fiction; Library Journal; Booklist starred; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult N2 - 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 ER -