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Amazon.com Review At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, 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? That would be the protagonist'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. A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, 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 or have anything else to do." Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, m

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Author

Amy Tan, Amy Tan, AMY TAN

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780965164795

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Family Sagas

Rating

3.98 / 5 (100,625 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14