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89 out of 89 people found this review helpful.

Mothers, Daughters, Ghosts: Amy Tan is Back and Better Than Ever

Date of Review:  Mar 24, 2001
The Bottom Line: Imagine sitting down to a delicious dinner of Chinese food, one that leaves you full and happy. That's how you'll feel at the end of this book.
Review: Amy Tan has always written novels which stop short just this side of autobiography. Books like The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God?s Wife have documented Chinese-American family life with such detail, such sincerity that it feels like we?re having...
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  5.0

by: Grouch
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Amy Tan has been good before...now,...
Cons
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75 out of 75 people found this review helpful.

Bonesetting: of mothers and daughters

Date of Review:  Mar 22, 2001
The Bottom Line: Excellence of writing and story meld together in a fine read. What are you waiting for? Read it!
Review: Amy Tan is a great writer. What makes a writer great, you ask? Several things, she has talent with words, wonderful stories to relay, and she doesn't buy into publisher pressure to mass produce herself into mediocrity. Nothing makes me more...
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  5.0

by: robinmichele
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Exquisite prose of the first order
Cons
none. abolutely none. Less than none.
 
66 out of 66 people found this review helpful.

A Lesson in Mother-Daughter Dynamics: The Bonesetter's Daughter

Date of Review:  May 20, 2002
The Bottom Line: The Bonesetter's Daughter is not to be missed. Amy Tan definitely understands the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship.
Review: Amy Tan?s The Bonesetter?s Daughter is a touching, powerful novel. However, it does not have the impact of Tan?s most famous novel The Joy Luck Club. I am not sure Tan will ever be able to recreate the magic of her first novel, but she is an...
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  5.0

by: amykhar
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Amy Tan. Need I say more?
Cons
A bit of a slow start.
 
54 out of 54 people found this review helpful.

The Bonesetter's Daughter: Finding the Family Ghost

Date of Review:  Mar 28, 2002
The Bottom Line: Powerful stories, if a familiar theme, and not to be missed if you're a fan of Tan's work.
Review: I've been waiting a while to read Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, and I wasn't disappointed. Having read her previous books, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, I'm fairly familiar with her themes of dissent...
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  4.0

by: arianej
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
beautiful details, great...
Cons
very familiar territory for Tan fans
 
46 out of 46 people found this review helpful.

AmyTan As Chronicler Of a Complex Mother-Daughter Relationship

Date of Review:  May 6, 2001
The Bottom Line: If you like The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, you will love The Bonesetter's Daughter, the chronicling of a complex relationship between two loving characters.
Review: How would you feel if you had to wait until your mother's death to unearth her true name? Amy Tan and her siblings found themselves in this predicament when they were filling her death certificate. They did not know which name to put down. This is...
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  5.0

by: charles
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Interesting writing; A new novel a la...
Cons
None
 
40 out of 40 people found this review helpful.

The Bonesetter's Daughter: Universal Mother-Daughter Truths

Date of Review:  Jul 29, 2004
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line is neither a mother nor a daughter, so can't shed any light here.
Review: A long-time fan of Amy Tan's writing, I was recently going through some of my books to determine which could be released in my BookCrossing.com releases when I can upon The Bonesetter's Daughter. I immediately sat down to reread it in order to...
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  4.0

by: pippadaisy
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
any mother or daughter can relate
Cons
it's definitely a "chick" book
 
35 out of 35 people found this review helpful.

Physician, Heal Thyself! A Review of Amy Tan's, "The Bonesetter's Daughter"

Date of Review:  Jul 28, 2001
The Bottom Line: A beautifully written tale of secrets, mysteries, and the hidden meanings that stare us right in the face. I left feeling love and loss for my own mother.
Review: Amy Tan continues to mesmerize me with her tales. Few mother and daughter relationships are all tea parties and Easy Bake Ovens. They are hard work requiring excavation of the heart and soul. Especially fraught with intensity are those where mothers...
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  5.0

by: bartzone
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Amy Tan nails mother and daughter...
Cons
She apologizes for this not being her...
 
24 out of 24 people found this review helpful.

like mother like daughter

Date of Review:  Aug 12, 2002
The Bottom Line: Sad, but honest family story.
Review: This summer is of the woman. Yayas are about mothers mistreating daughters. I read Bonesetter's Daughter for the Chinese aspect of things, and it was actually similar.

For one thing, history is revealed. Ruth, the American daughter of a...
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  5.0

by: WBDBaj
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
beautifully written historical novel
Cons
a little slow
 
24 out of 24 people found this review helpful.

This well-crafted Amy Tan novel will hold your interest

Date of Review:  Apr 25, 2001
The Bottom Line: Recommended: definitely a page turner and a very fast read.
Review: This was my first Amy Tan novel. I never read The Joy Luck Club, but when my book club chose The Bonesetter's Daughter as our April novel, I was eager to see what all of the hype was about.

Things I Know Are True
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  4.0

by: whitty
Recommended to buy: Yes

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beautiful novel about maternal love and...
Cons
none
 
22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.

Generations Flowing from the Mouth of the Mountain

Date of Review:  Jul 7, 2002
The Bottom Line: This goes into the essential books list
Review: These are the things I know are true...

Amy Tan has had my undivided attention since I first picked up a copy of The Joy Luck Club years ago. She does not capture her readers' hearts and minds with building suspense, senseless murders,...
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  5.0

by: phoenixx
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Mellifluous writing in traditional Amy...
Cons
Tan turns out another practically...
 

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