TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The bonesetter's daughter SN - 0804114986 (pbk.) U1 - 813 PY - 2002///, c2001 CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - Chinese American families KW - Chinese American women KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Women immigrants KW - Women KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnams, 2001 N2 - 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 ER -