Danley's review
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Amy Tan targets the mother/daughter theme once again in this book, The Bonesetter's Daughter. In this novel, the reader goes on a journey with the main character Ruth. Ruth is a chinese born American who resides in San Francisco, United States. For her entire childhood and half of her adulthood, she has not understood her mother. She felt her mother was cheap, bossy, embarrassing. She never thought that her mother also had weak spots. That she has been through many conflicts. In the novel, Ruth comes to learn about her mother and her life as a young girl. The novel is written in strong narratives of both Ruth and her mother, LuLing. The story stretches and expands between different time periods, historic references to China. In Amy Tan's novel, she has successfully weaved in Chinese culture, American culture, the 'old-fashioned' POV's and 'modern' POV's into a masterpiece that describes and captures a pair of mother and daughter's unstable relationship.
