{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Bone","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/bone-1993","description":"\u0026quot;We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn\u0026#39;t lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked at us, shook their heads. We heard things.\u0026quot; In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco\u0026#39;s Chinatown, to the world of one family\u0026#39;s honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a \u0026quot;paper father.\u0026quot; Two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy tension as they try to fathom the source of a brave young girl\u0026#39;s sorrow. Oldest daughter Leila tells the story: of her sister Ona, who has ended her young, conflicted life by jumping from the roof of a Chinatown housing project; of her mother Mah, a seamstress in a garment shop run by a \u0026quot;Chinese Elvis\u0026quot;; of Leon, her father, a merchant seaman who ships out frequently; and the family\u0026#39;s youngest, Nina, who has escaped to New York by working as a flight attendant. With Ona and Nina gone, it is up to Leila to lay the bones of the family\u0026#39;s collective guilt to rest, and find some way to hope again. Fae Myenne Ng\u0026#39;s luminous debut explores what it means to be a stranger in one\u0026#39;s own family, a foreigner in one\u0026#39;s own neighborhood--and whether it\u0026#39;s possible to love a place that may never feel quite like home.","author_name":"Fae Myenne Ng","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/fae-myenne-ng","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/book_mappings/7396686/358d3c6bdcbcdea510cb5c87bab00a315fd59ee0.jpeg","thumbnail_width":326,"thumbnail_height":500}