Bonesetter's Daughter (Tan) - Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Tan's splendid new novels abounds not only with tellers and listeners, but with people who truly understands stories....
New York Times Book Review


Splendid.... [W]hat marvelous characters she gives us.... Tan's decision to tie up all the loose ends...does not mar the real ending, for which Tan's superb storytelling has amply prepared us.
Nancy Wilard - The New York Times Book Review


In the end, it's the novel's depth of feeling that resonates and lingers. Tan writes with real soul.
The Washington Post Book World


Finding emotional healing in the face of disease has launched a thousand Movies of the Week, but in the hands of a writer as generous as Tan, it's a subject that still resonates as an antidote to grief.
Yvonne Zipp - Christian Science Monitor


(Audio version.) Tan's empathetic insight into the complex relationship of Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters is again displayed in her latest extraordinary, multi-layered tale.… Tan deftly handles narrative duties as Ruth, the exasperated but loving daughter.
Publishers Weekly


The novel builds slowly…. But the elaborate preparation pays generous dividends in the stunning final 50 or so pages: abeautifully modulated amalgam of grief, pride, resentment, and resignation…. Tan strikes gold once again.
Kirkus Reviews