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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 ...more
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 ...more

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