Order this book from Amazon.com The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan New York, New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 2001 A Chinese-American woman uncovers the story of her mother's traumatic life in rural China at the beginning of the 20th century. I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.