New York detective April Woo investigates the kidnaping of a Chinese woman's adopted baby. The woman is unable to identify her attacker and the husband cannot provide adoption papers. An illegally adopted baby? No one in Chinatown is talking. By the author of Judging Time.

"Somewhere between Hong Kong and New York, life does an abrupt shift for Gail Szeto when her mother, her last family member, is killed in an accident. For Gail, a mixed-race, single mother who buried her young son only two years prior, all she has left is a hard-won career at a global investment bank. Life rapidly goes into free fall for this woman with a complicated past, who was once so sure of her direction in life, who can now see no clear future...

The Bonesetter's Daughter features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: mother-daughter relationships; resilience; secrecy; ghosts; the pearl necklace; the oracle bone. It also includes detailed analysis of these important characters: Ruth Young; Luling Young; Precious Auntie.

When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary--an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia--reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The...

"I︠A︡ tak dolgo vgli︠a︡dyvalas' v kartinu, chto zaboleli glaza. I︠A︡ izuchila peĭzazh do mel'chaĭshikh detaleĭ, no razgadat' ego ne poluchalos'... Neuzheli ėto rasskaz o prostake, kotoryĭ gnalsi︠a︡ za d'i︠a︡vol'skoĭ mechtoĭ i teper' s beznadezhnoĭ toskoĭ smotrit na gorshok s zolotom, zapri︠a︡tannyĭ v nedostupnoĭ sii︠a︡i︠u︡shcheĭ dali? U Vaĭolet schastlivoe detstvo - ona zhivet v roskoshi i okruzhena li︠u︡bov'i︠u︡...