The Bonesetter's Daughter
Trade cloth edition is near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Signed by author on title page. Mylar cover included.
“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”
The Bonesetter’s Daughter begins when two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled “Things I Know Are True” and the other, “Things I Must Not Forget.” The author is Ruth’s mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates. Ruth has little idea of her mother’s past or true identity. What’s more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing’s decline—along with her own remorse over past rancor—and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to “ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry to have anything else to do.”
Trade cloth edition is near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Signed by author on title page. Mylar cover included.
“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”
The Bonesetter’s Daughter begins when two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled “Things I Know Are True” and the other, “Things I Must Not Forget.” The author is Ruth’s mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates. Ruth has little idea of her mother’s past or true identity. What’s more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing’s decline—along with her own remorse over past rancor—and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to “ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry to have anything else to do.”
Trade cloth edition is near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Signed by author on title page. Mylar cover included.
“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”
The Bonesetter’s Daughter begins when two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled “Things I Know Are True” and the other, “Things I Must Not Forget.” The author is Ruth’s mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates. Ruth has little idea of her mother’s past or true identity. What’s more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing’s decline—along with her own remorse over past rancor—and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to “ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry to have anything else to do.”
ISBN 0-399-14643-1
Amy Tan
2001