The Bonesetter's Daughter

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Hardcover, 420 pages

English language

Published April 13, 2002 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
9781597770767

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LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down 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. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing …

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Subjects

  • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
  • Fiction
  • Unabridged Audio - Fiction/Mystery
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Ethnic Orientation/Chinese
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
  • Sex & Gender/Feminine
  • Topical/Family
  • Unabridged Audio / Fiction/Mystery