Bone (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Fae Myenne Ng
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: The 1960’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: San Francisco, California
- Principal Characters: Leila Leong, Ona Leong, Nina Leong, Mah Leong, Leon Leong, Mason Louie, Tommie Horn
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Tradition, Suicide, Marriage, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Immigration or emigration, Adultery, Multiculturalism, San Francisco, Loneliness, Bilingualism, Gossip, Aliens, illegal, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans
- Locales: Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
The Novel
Fae Ng’s novel Bone chronicles the fictional history of a family of Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco’s Chinatown from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. The main characters are three sisters, American by birth and environment, struggling to make their ways to peace as persons, women, and Chinese Americans. The central event of the story is the death of the second daughter, Ona, who has recently killed herself by jumping from the thirteenth floor of a building while on drugs.
The novel itself is divided into fourteen chapters, all simply but...
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