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 headstrong 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.
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Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted as a PBS production. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.
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A Wonderful Generational Tale,
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This review is from: The Bonesetter's Daughter (Audio CD)
Amy Tan and Joan Chen have teamed to share a beautiful tale of three generations of Chinese women. I loved the story, and was captivated by both narrators' abilities to draw me into the lives of Ruth (a self-sufficient American editor), her mother, LiuLing (showing definite signs of Alzheimers), and LiuLing's mother, Precious Auntie (disfigured and unable to speak due to terrible facial burns). LiuLing and Precious Auntie's stories are told through old letters...Precious Auntie's tragic tale is shared with her daughter LiuLing too late, and LiuLing's life finally unfold's for Ruth *nearly* too late. I loved the relationships between the women, recognizing some of the same early signs of mental aging in my own mother and mother-in-law, which really helped me identify with Ruth.
Give this one a try. I hope you're as captivated as I was, listening to a wonderful story read by excellent narrators. LOVED it.
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