Dec 24, 2009
Amy Tan has established her literary career on the generational and cross-cultural tensions characteristic of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American daughters. The Bonesetter’s Daughter continues that tradition but with a sad personal note: one character develops Alzheimer’s disease, as did Tan’s mother, Daisy. As she dedicates the book to her mother and grandmother (“The heart of this story belongs to my grandmother, its voice to my mother”), Tan reveals that she never knew their real names until Daisy Tan’s death in 1999. A photograph of her grandmother in...
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