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Any idea what this book is?

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MrsSpoon · 19/11/2006 18:36

I was speaking to expat on a book thread last night and was reminded of a book I have read fairly recently (or at least I think it was a book) where a girl leaves home with some of her mother's silk worms in a box and IIRC has a traumatic time and all the silk worms die.

My intial thought was that it was Memoirs of a Geisha but today I don't think so.

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Miaou · 19/11/2006 18:48

Is he really called Jeffrey Wossname MI????

motherinferior · 19/11/2006 18:45

I think it's the Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan...no, it's not, it's Middlesex. By Jeffrey Wossname. It's not that the silkworms die in a traumatic experience; she's not allowed to take them into the US because they are classified either as living organisms and/or as parasites.

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MrsSpoon · 19/11/2006 18:43

Oh, glad I'm not just imagining it then. I think they did start more silkworms after that.

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sniff · 19/11/2006 18:42

I have that book and now you have me searching through my bookcase looking for its title they move and start move silkworms dont they