The Tragedy of Leila in Bone

Tradition of Layla's bones How much should a child bear responsibility for his family? In the "bone" of the letter named Leila with FAE Myenne, she was born to be the father of cursing Layla, the daughter of the beloved mother Mahjong, and the family riot, using surname. As Lira himself said, "Fu of our dialect sounds like a bitter word" (18). She became two older siblings, Onna and Nina. Both come from Maha's second husband, Leon. Leon likes his biological daughter like a real father, and at the same time Leon also likes Lyra, only his daughter marries Mach.

Tell the story of the old daughter Lila: Sister Fiona, she jumped off the end of her young life from the roof of contradiction Chinatown's housing project. Her mother mahjong, "Chinese Elvis," a clothing store's needlework, Leon, her father, often a merchant sailor, and the cabin crew fled to New York like the youngest child of the family, Nina I will. When Ona and Nina departed, Layla decided to allow the family to convict the bone as a whole and again to find some ways of hope.

Ng 's gossip was a modest debut, exploring the confusion of Chinese - American families. Narratorira understands suicide on younger sister Ona and takes time to relieve family guilt. Leila always solved the problem, and in English-speaking countries, to her mother, father-in-law and Leon (I grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown). Leon is like an abandoned road that has moved to a shabby hotel, now shipping family crisis is a practice at work. He accused me of bringing bad luck. He did not fulfill his promise and made his bones of his "paper's father" to be reproduced in China. Mahjong also felt responsibility: fell in love with Ong's son, caught in the middle, the ona, business venture schedule that failed Leon, fraud and exploitation Boss Ong family failed adulterous events. At the same time, the youngest sister Nina lives in N.Y.C. and is away from his family.

Recently, the story of Leon family who died of suicide by middle girls Ono is transmitted to bones. Ona jumped off from a housing project in Chinatown and committed suicide. She did not leave a record, but the police reported that she was "fall" or depression, but there was no apparent cause of suicide. This novel is told by the first girls Leila Fu Rui, Ona's sister and the eldest daughter of the Leon family. Lyra ties the death of her sister to the contract of his life and led him to think about the events of childhood and current daily circumstances. This novel has been developed into a series of stories from now to the past.