Boise State English Professor Jeff Westover’s “From ‘No Name Woman’ to Gu Liu Xin: Ghosts and Writing in The Bonesetter’s Daughter” appears in “Critical Insights: Amy Tan,” edited by Kathryn West and Linda Trinh Moser.
The book was published by Salem Press in late 2021. Westover argues that Tan rewrites part of Maxine Hong Kingtson’s “The Woman Warrior” (1976) in order to recover the identity and legacy of a female ancestor in “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” which Tan published in 2001.