01530cam a2200373 4500 9765901 TxAuBib 20040712120000.0 ||||||s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 00062673 9780399146435 acid-free paper 0399146431 acid-free paper 9780399146855 limited ed. 0399146857 limited ed. TxAuBib Tan, Amy. The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan. New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2001. 353 p ; 24 cm. Library Journal. Booklist starred. Pub Weekly. 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. Adult. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Chinese American families Fiction. Chinese American women Fiction. Mother-daughter relationship Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Women China Fiction. China Fiction. Domestic fiction.