The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

ISBN: 0345457374

Author: Tan, Amy

Condition: New

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK [An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond (People) from the renowned author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird ChroniclesNo one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.-The Philadelphia InquirerRuth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mothers tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed.Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mothers heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget. . . .Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetters Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, and its most profound hopes.