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Miriam is Art’s ex-wife and mother to Dory and Fia. She is the opposite of Ruth: outspoken, confident, and flashy. Ruth thinks she might have liked Miriam, had they met under different circumstances. However, she feels intimidated by Miriam’s formerly intimate relationship with Art and resents how being co-parents makes Miriam and Art permanent fixtures in each other’s lives.
Miriam Quotes in The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The The Bonesetter’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Miriam or refer to Miriam. 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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Miriam Quotes in The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The The Bonesetter’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Miriam or refer to Miriam. 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
Quotes
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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