The Bonesetter's Daughter

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I think this is the best book Amy Tan has ever written! It is better than her other books, which are great too. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Complex relationship betw Chinese mothers and daughters
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The always complex relationships between mothers and daughters seems to be even more so between Chinese mothers and daughters - and most extremely so when the daughters are American-born. Amy Tan's multi-layered family tale is set against the backdrop of her mother's progressive Alzheimer's and the confusion of past with present that is a recurring and ever-worsening problem for both the mother, Lu Ling, and her daughter, Ruth. Much of the tale is told through a series of journals Lu Ling kept when she was a young woman in China, and the comparison between her situation then and now is poitnant.
Not quite The Joy Luck Club, but very, very good.