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The Book: The Bonesetter’s Daughter
ISBN: 0-8041-1498-6
Suggested By: Sissy Vaughn
Where: Home
When:8:30-9P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 1-55 (55)
The Lead In: A new book, a new day. Amy Tan, who I only know from a Simpson’s episode.
The 411 on the 55: The book opens with a Chinese girl with her Aunt. The Aunt is burned and everyone hate her except for her niece. They go to pray and her Aunt shows the girl her family name (which is a secret) written on a piece of paper, but the girl (or the speaker of the memory) has forgotten the name over time.
From the intro, the book starts with Ruth, a woman who lives with her boyfriend, Art. He has two daughters from a previous marriage but they try and make it work. Ruth struggles with managing her time and family, while dealing with her whining (and apparently senile) mother. By the way, the niece in the intro story is her mother.
Line of the Day: “You wish I dead? You wish no mother tell you what to do? Okay, maybe I die soon!” pg 54
Fact on the Fiction: “What happens when a bunch of bestselling authors get together and form a garage band, then go on tour? In the case of Stephen King, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Dave Barry,Tad Bartimus, Roy Blount Jr., Michael Dorris, Robert Fulghum, Matt Groening, Barbara Kingsolver, Al Kooper, Greil Marcus, Joel Selvin, Amy Tan, Dave Marsh, Mitch Albom, Ridley Pearson and a few others...what happens is...THE ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS BAND!” Interview
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