Marie's review
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Amy Tan
Marie's review
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Amy Tan
Marie's review
rating:
bookshelves:
general-fiction
recommended for: those who love cultural fiction
This was my first Amy Tan book in almost 7 years, ever since I read The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife. I don't have copy's of the first two anymore so I can't pick them up to compare, but I have to admit that reading Amy Tan now I'm not as impressed with her writing as I once was.
Her content, however, is as always quite stirring and appropriate for those of a mixed-culture background. As a Chinese American myself I find her content, while technically fiction, truly strikes a chord with Chinese mother-daughter relations, and first-gen/second-gen relations regarding Chinese immigrants and their American/western kids. Amy Tan wrote of the mixed feelings of culture and history, of guilt and love, and of how family love is a kind of struggle at times. I think what got me is how so much is unspoken.
The Chinese American daughter is quite annoying in the beginning of the book, but I can sheepishly admit that being a Chinese American daughter with more traditional mainl...more
Her content, however, is as always quite stirring and appropriate for those of a mixed-culture background. As a Chinese American myself I find her content, while technically fiction, truly strikes a chord with Chinese mother-daughter relations, and first-gen/second-gen relations regarding Chinese immigrants and their American/western kids. Amy Tan wrote of the mixed feelings of culture and history, of guilt and love, and of how family love is a kind of struggle at times. I think what got me is how so much is unspoken.
The Chinese American daughter is quite annoying in the beginning of the book, but I can sheepishly admit that being a Chinese American daughter with more traditional mainl...more
