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Miriam
Arlene and Marty Kamen are Art’s parents. They love Art’s ex-wife, Miriam, and have never quite warmed up to Ruth, even though she has been in a committed relationship with Art for a decade. They are sophisticated people who have a refined taste in fashion, and Ruth often feels like an outcast when she is around them.
Arlene and Marty Kamen Quotes in The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The The Bonesetter’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Arlene and Marty Kamen or refer to Arlene and Marty Kamen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part One: Chapter Four
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They were nice to her, certainly. They had given her lovely birthday presents, a silk velvet scarf, Chanel No. 5, a lacquered tea tray, but nothing she might share with Art or pass on to his girls—or any future children, for that matter, since she was beyond the possibility of giving the Kamens additional grandchildren. Miriam, on the other hand, was now and forever the mother of the Kamens’ granddaughters, the keeper of heirlooms for Fia and Dory. Marty and Arlene already had given her the family sterling, china, and the mezuzah kissed by five generations of Kamens since the days they lived in Ukraine.
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Arlene and Marty Kamen Quotes in The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The The Bonesetter’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Arlene and Marty Kamen or refer to Arlene and Marty Kamen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part One: Chapter Four
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They were nice to her, certainly. They had given her lovely birthday presents, a silk velvet scarf, Chanel No. 5, a lacquered tea tray, but nothing she might share with Art or pass on to his girls—or any future children, for that matter, since she was beyond the possibility of giving the Kamens additional grandchildren. Miriam, on the other hand, was now and forever the mother of the Kamens’ granddaughters, the keeper of heirlooms for Fia and Dory. Marty and Arlene already had given her the family sterling, china, and the mezuzah kissed by five generations of Kamens since the days they lived in Ukraine.
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