The bonesetter's daughter_Amy Tan A book review

       

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝐀𝐦𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐧

                            𝐀 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

                             ~~~~~~~~~

The book is divided into three parts. The former takes into account the life of Ruth Luyi Young. The latter one is about her mother LuLing Liu Young. Both the stories have their own revelation and hidden tales subdued deep within themselves. With each pages unfolding the untold stories about their childhood, adolescent, young adult and their adulthood, Amy Tan takes you to the various level of emotional roller coaster ride as you move towards the end. The one thing you can be sure about this book is it will give you the insight into the struggle of growing up as a women more specifically AN ASIAN WOMEN.

                                 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈

Ruth is like an average Asian women trying to cope up with the western lifestyle. She has been bogged down for being the only child of a widowed chinese mother, outcasted for being poor and hated for being raised by her mother. Despite the struggle she faced while growing up in San Francisco, she had settle in the daily commotion, being in a relationship for past ten years and had a steady job as a ghost writer.

Ruth never seemed to understand her mother. Her mother, LuLing, had a knack for ghost stories and hated the American lifestyle. She longed to go back to her province which made her appeared psychotic to the outsider. Ruth tries to seek professional help and finds that LuLing is diagnosed with the early stage of Alzhiemer's disease. 

The relevation about her mother leaves her to take a back seat from her daily life as she moves in with her mother and becomes her caregiver. Ruth discovers a memoir which was written by her mother when she started to lose her memory. She gets the manuscript translated and Tan takes the reader into the low key life of Luling in the village of immortal heart.

                              𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈

LuLing grew up in the village of immortal heart as the daughter of precious auntie, Bao Bomu. Her mother had to suffered from the vicious myths of the villagers and as a result she was considered an ominous being. She had to give up her beauty for the scoundrels that envied her. She was tagged as the murderer of her father; the bonesetter of the village. She had to hide her own identity from her daughter so that people wont her judge. When Luling finally knew about her biological mother, it was too late to form any maternal bonds with her. This lead to her hallucinations about her deceased Bao Bomu and the frequent ghost stories and curses she told the people including her own daughter. 

                              𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈𝐈

The final part of the story tells the reader about the contrasting difference of the pre-revolutionary rural China and Hongkok before it became modern country. The book makes you ponder over the purpose of living and the harmony that can be created by a mere ship that connects all the beings.

Amy Tan delivers the perfect classical myths and prejudice that comes with modernization. She provides the reader with the enchanted stories of three different yet stinkingly similar characters of RUTH, LULING AND BAO.

P.s it's a great novel for anyone who wants to spare some time from the hustle of life. So grasp on your coffee and have a great reading.

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                                                   ꧁Eunoia7꧂