The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan.
by Tan, Amy.
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BookPublisher: New York : Ballantine, 2002; �2001Edition: 1st Ballantine Bks. domestic ed.Description: 403 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 9780804114981.Subject(s): Chinese American families -- Fiction | Chinese American women -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Women immigrants -- Fiction | Women -- China -- Fiction | China -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
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Wilson's Fiction, October 2010
Library Journal, February 2001
Booklist starred, December 2000
Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), January 2002
Pub Weekly, December 2000
Publisher's Weekly, December 2000
Kirkus Starred, December 2000
New York Times, February 2001
San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
800 Lexile.
Adult Follett School Solutions.
Reading Counts RC 7.1 25.0
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