The Bonesitter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

#1 National Bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book, this unforgettable novel comes from the beloved author of The Joy Luck Club. As The Philadelphia Inquirer puts it: “No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.”

Settle into your favorite reading chair for this one. It’s a story that asks for a rainy afternoon, a warm mug, and the soft sound of the sea just outside the window.

Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always shared a complicated bond. But everything shifts when Ruth discovers a set of writings that vividly capture her mother’s tumultuous youth in China. Inside these pages, she finds a version of LuLing she never knew.

From there, the story sweeps us to a backwoods village called Immortal Heart. There are secrets carried by a mute nursemaid named Precious Auntie. A cave where dragon bones are mined. A crumbling ravine known as the End of the World. And a curse that LuLing believes she unleashed through betrayal.

Within those calligraphied pages waits the truth about a mother’s heart, the things she cannot say aloud, yet hopes her daughter will never forget.

Conjuring the ache of broken dreams and the quiet power of old myths, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a tender excavation of the human spirit, its deepest wounds, and its most enduring hopes. As People magazine described it, this is an “absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond.”

Come find it on our shelves, or let us wrap one up for you. A perfect companion for the salty days ahead.

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