The Bonesetter’s Daughter: A Novel

The Bonesetter’s Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth… . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery.
-Los Angeles Times

TAN AT HER BEST … Rich and hauntingly forlorn … The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.
-San Francisco Chronicle

For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down-by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.
-The New York Times Book Review

AMY TAN [HAS] DONE IT AGAIN… . The Bonesetter’s Daughter tells a compelling tale of family relationships; it layers and stirs themes of secrets, ambiguous meanings, cultural complexity and self-identity; and it resonates with metaphor and symbol.
-The Denver Post