TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tan,Amy
TI  - The bonesetter's daughter
SN  - 0329276115
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2002///, c2001
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine
KW  - Chinese American families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Chinese American women
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Women
KW  - China
KW  - sears
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Mother-daughter relationship
N1  - Booklist starred; Library Journal; Wilson's Fiction; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -