"The Bonesetter's Daughter" and "The Hundred Secret Senses" are two books that have good similarities and contrasts to each other. Amy Tan is the author of both texts. I chose these two texts because they both focus on the same themes - cultural differences, family relationships between mother and daughter and two sisters, womanhood, reconciliation of the past and Chinese beliefs and superstition.

Both texts were also divided into two story lines, the story of the past and the story of the present. In "The Bonesetter's Daughter", the present story was set in contemporary San Francisco while the past was set in a Chinese village called Immortal Heart in 1916 until World War II (1935-1945). In "The Hundred Secret Senses" the present story was also set in San Francisco, while the past was set in southern China during the later years of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864). The present setting...