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Art Kamen
Dory is Art and Miriam’s 13-year-old daughter. She and her older sister, Fia, live with Art and Ruth part-time, and Ruth functions as their stepmother, though she and Art aren’t technically married. Although the girls talk back to Ruth, as teenagers often do, she’s been a part of their lives for many years, and they love her. Dory demonstrates this by expressing how much she and Fia miss Ruth, who has moved out of Art’s flat to take care of LuLing fulltime. Dory’s remark shows Ruth that Fia and Dory care about her, even if they don’t always show it.
Dory Quotes in The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The The Bonesetter’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Dory or refer to Dory. 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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Part One: Chapter Seven
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Her hands would always be full, and finally, she and her mother could both stop counting.
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Dory Quotes in The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The The Bonesetter’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Dory or refer to Dory. 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:
).
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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Part One: Chapter Seven
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Her hands would always be full, and finally, she and her mother could both stop counting.
