Modern Chinatown is a vibrant, bustling community full of bright colors and Chinese characters adorning buildings as far as the eye can see. Chinese elders wander the narrow, unkempt streets while children frolic from store to store with wide smiles, rummaging through toy stores as store owners look on. Mothers run from store to store looking for the most tender meats to buy for dinner that night or lunch the next day. Tourists from the nearby downtown area head into the heart of Chinatown with large and expensive cameras, posing for photos with lion-headed statues, and continue on their way, purchasing cheap Chinatown goods along the way. Everywhere, we see signs of the sweat, toil and collective efforts of Chinese immigrants put in for decades to create a safe haven for Asian acceptance and mutual cooperation. Fae Myenne Ng's Bone is the story of a Chinese immigrant family's struggle with the Asian-American experience in San Francisco's Chinatown, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Bone depicts the struggle of Chinatown families to be accepted within their community and within the family itself, describing the tensions resulting from both poor economic conditions and internal family conflicts. Unlike Euro-American immigrants, Chinese immigrants were forced to settle in dense concentrations of their own families. nationality, isolating them from American social culture. The neighborhoods outside of Chinatown were not welcoming, so their only solace could be found in Chinatown. Chinatown's first generation Chinese worked among themselves and maintained strongly traditional attitudes and practices, learning little English because their original dialects, Cantonese or Mandarin, were more than adequate in the course... ... middle of article ...... that influenced his life in Chinatown. Bone depicts a side of Chinatown that no book or history lesson can accomplish. By allowing readers to read and experience through the characters, readers viscerally grasp the tension and frustration of the characters as they each struggle to find acceptance with each other and their family members, and to find each other. to forge an identity as Chinese or American. In difficult economic circumstances that force a father to work overseas and a mother to work in sweatshops to support their children's education, the Leong family's experiences demonstrate the difficult lives of immigrants. Additionally, Ona's story and subsequent suicide play a key element in the Leong family story, allowing us to understand the social impact of her life as an Asian American and the ultimate complexities of life in Chinatown..