The bonesetter's daughter /

Tan, Amy.

The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan. - 1st Ballantine domestic ed. - New York : Ballantine Books, 2002, c2001. - 403 p. ;

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnams, 2001.

Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.

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Chinese American families
Chinese American women
Mothers and daughters
Women immigrants
Women
Domestic fiction.

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