In The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan draws the heartbreaking, complex picture of the relationship between Ruth Young, the middle-aged Chinese-American daughter of LuLing. LuLing’s story is woven into Ruth’s life just as quickly and mercilessly as it is threaded into the reader’s life. It is a sad tale involving dragon bones, World War II China, [...]

The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a dificult book to review.  Though reading the book was no problem when I sat in the middle of my bed last night to write this review I found that coming up with the words for this review were difficult.  This book did not follow the theme that I thought it [...]

To begin, I have never read a novel by Amy Tan, including this one (obviously).  However, I have read several books involving Chinese culture and specifically about mother and daughter relationships within the culture.  Most of these books were non-fiction so I was interested how a fictional mother/daughter relationship would be portrayed in a fictional [...]