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The Book: The Bonesetter’s Daughter
ISBN: 0-8041-1498-6
Suggested By: Sissy Vaughn
Where: Home
When:10-!0:30P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 171-226 (55)
The Lead In: Last night’s reading freaked me out a bit. The image of Precious Auntie’s ghosts lingering around freaked me out a bit.
The 411 on the 55: The second section of this book flies back in time across the globe to China to tell us the story of Ruth’s mother.
Precious Auntie is actually her mother, but because she never had the chance to marry her fiance (he was killed by a horse kick), the family decided to cover it up. Precious Auntie, in a fit of sadness having lost her future husband, attempts to kill herself by drinking boiling ink. The family rescues her and she becomes her baby’s nursemaid.
The family is attempting to marry the young girl off and P.A. seeks to be involved but is shut out by her own daughter (thought she is unaware of this fact, having been lied to from birth). Upon arrival in another city, she is unprepared for what is happening around her and is incredibly overwhelmed. Instead of missing PA, she blames her for not training her correctly. Snot.
Line of the Day: “She speaks in the languages of shooting stars.” pg 200
Fact on the Fiction: Primary to this second section of the story is the discovery of Dragon Bones, valued by archeologists visiting the caves near their home. From Wikipedia: “They were directed to the site at Dragon Bone Hill by local quarry men, where Johann Andersson recognized deposits of quartz that were not native to the area. Immediately realizing the importance of this find he turned to his colleague and announced, ‘Here is primitive man, now all we have to do is find him!’” Wikipedia
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