The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change . Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city.
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Chinese American teenagers, Fiction, Akha (Southeast Asian people), Group identity, Large type books, Mothers and daughters, Adopted children, Identity (Psychology), Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, Chinese americans, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, China, fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2018-04-22, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Adopted children -- Fiction, Chinese American teenagers -- California -- Fiction, Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction, Mothers and daughters -- Fiction, Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- China -- Fiction, Group identity -- China -- Fiction, Adoption (Droit international privé) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Mères et filles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Identité (Psychologie) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Chine -- Adoption -- Filles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, California, ChinaPlaces
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel
Apr 03, 2018, Simon & Schuster Audio
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1508261474 9781508261476
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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
2017, Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
in English
- Large print edition.
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