01625cam a2200397 4500 367577768 TxAuBib 20180516120000.0 000814s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00062673 9780399146435 acid-free paper 0399146431 acid-free paper 9780399146855 limited ed. 0399146857 limited ed. DLC DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Tan, Amy. The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan. New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2001. 353 p. ; 24 cm. Wilson's Fiction. Library Journal. Booklist starred. 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 Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20010502. Chinese American families Fiction. Chinese American women Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Women China Fiction. Mother-daughter relationship Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. China Fiction. Domestic fiction.