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    A Study Guide for Faye Myenne Ng's "Bone"
    A Study Guide for Faye Myenne Ng's "Bone"
    A Study Guide for Faye Myenne Ng's "Bone"
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    A Study Guide for Faye Myenne Ng's "Bone"

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    A Study Guide for Faye Myenne Ng's "Bone," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535819787
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      A Study Guide for Faye Myenne Ng's "Bone" - Gale

      11

      Bone

      Fae Myenne Ng

      1993

      Introduction

      Bone is the first novel by the Chinese American author Fae Myenne Ng. It was published in 1993 and became a national best seller. The story is set in San Francisco's Chinatown and tells the story of one Chinese American family over two generations. The older generation consists mainly of Mah and Leon Leong, who immigrated separately to the United States many decades ago. The novel is narrated by one of the younger generation, Mah's daughter Leila, who has two sisters, Ona and Nina. When the novel begins, Leila has just returned from a trip to New York, where she married her longtime boyfriend, Mason. She reveals that sometime in the recent past, Ona committed suicide by jumping off the thirteenth floor of one of the housing projects in Chinatown. This is the crucial event around which the novel revolves. Leila and her family try to make sense of Ona's suicide, which has no obvious cause. The novel has an unusual structure in that it is told in reverse chronological order. The narrative begins after Ona's suicide and works its way backward until it reaches the crucial days immediately after and, finally, before this crucial act that devastates the Leong family. As Leila describes her world and her family history, she reveals the hard lives led by Chinese immigrants to San Francisco. She also shows how the American-born younger generation develops different attitudes than those of their parents toward their Chinese origins and the American culture in which they live.

      Author Biography

      Fae Myenne Ng (pronounced Ing) was born in 1956 (some sources say 1957) in San Francisco, California, and she and her brother were raised in that city's Chinatown as second-generation Chinese Americans. Her father had immigrated to the United States in 1940 and worked as a cook. Her mother was a seamstress, and from her, Nglearned how to help sew fashion items. Her parents did not speak English; in the family home, the language spoken was Cantonese.

      Ng received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1984. She then started working on her novel, supporting herself by working

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