#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "[An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond" (People) from the renowned author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother's tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed.

Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget. . . .

Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, and its most profound hopes.

Author: Amy Tan
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 01/29/2002
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.14h x 4.44w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780804114981

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 18
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 48144 / Bonesetter's Daughter