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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Ruth, while growing up, has
always dealt with her mother's disturbing notions of ghosts, curses, threats
to kill herself, and even being forced by her to communicate with ghosts.
Now, 30 years later, as her aging mother, LuLing Young's, usual disagreeable
and dissatisfied behavior slowly changes into less argumentative and happy,
Ruth begins to suspect something is wrong with her. While tending to her
mother, Ruth discovers the pages LuLing wrote in Chinese that tell the
story of her uproarious and unlucky life. As Ruth reads the story, she
is brought to a backwoods village in China by the name of Immortal Heart
where she learns the mysteries of her mother's background. Questions rise
into Ruth's mind, and through LuLing's calligraphed pages, she slowly
uncovers the secrets that explain LuLing's confusing behavior throughout
Ruth's childhood, and the truths concealed in her mother's heart. Through
twists and turns of stories, history and facts, Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's
Daughter conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and
the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have
lost in grief.
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