The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

In the haze of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Ruth Young struggles to bridge the widening silence between herself and her aging mother, LuLing, whose memory is fading. When she discovers her mother’s handwritten memoir, Ruth is transported to early twentieth-century China — to the story of Precious Auntie, a woman whose tragic life and secret legacy shaped generations.

As Ruth deciphers her mother’s past, the two women are drawn together through the power of memory, forgiveness, and love that endures beyond time and loss.

With her signature grace and depth, Amy Tan weaves a powerful tale of mothers and daughters, identity and inheritance, where the ghosts of history echo through the fragile bonds of the living. The Bonesetter’s Daughter is both intimate and epic — a meditation on the stories we tell, and those that tell us.