TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tan,Amy
TI  - The bonesetter's daughter
SN  - 0399146431 (acidfree 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  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh
N1  - In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with and his two teenage daughters. None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life; she knows only how to translate what others want to say
ER  -