The Bonesetter's Daughter Questions and Answers
by Amy Tan

The generation gap is a common theme right throughout the works of Amy Tan, and it crops up again in The Bonesetter’s Daughter. As if often the case in Tan’s work, we are presented with a young...

Hello! In the beginning of the story, we are introduced to Ruth, a ghost writer, who lives with her boyfriend, Art Kamen, and his two daughters, Dory and Fia. Ruth feels that her mother is a very...

Names in The Bonesetter's Daughter have a connection to the person's heritage and true self. LuLing wants to know the name of her mother—the woman she knows only as the Bonesetter's Daughter—and to...

The transience, or impermanence, of memory is a central theme in Amy Tan's book The Bonesetter's Daughter. As she gets older, LuLing is losing her memories, and with them her connection to her past...