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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Marcela
Apr 02, 2016 rated it liked it
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This is my second book by Amy Tan after The Joy Luck Club. I thoroughly enjoyed reading TJLC, so I was really looking forward to reading this book. The Bonesetter's Daughter is told from two points of view: Ruth, a first-generation Chinese-American working in San Francisco as a ghost writer, and her mother LuLing growing up in China and how she moved to America.
I enjoyed reading the first part of the book and was quickly hooked with Ruth's story. However, it all went downhill when the
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