nightingaelic 's review for:

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book tricked me in the best of ways. In the beginning I was reading a book about how all the support systems of a ghostwriting, step-mothering, second-generation Chinese-American woman were failing her right as her mother begins to develop dementia: By the end, I had read a heartfelt plea from the generation before, a cry for understanding that was lucky to find its intended home just in time. This book looked at the wall between immigrant families and their children, between mothers and their daughters, between the old and the young, and it wove a rope to scale it.