From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, "one of those
special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot" (The
New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea
farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. In their
remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives
around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people,
ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for
generations-until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep,
the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The
stranger's arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in
the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few
educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that
shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock-conceived
with a man her parents consider a poor choice-she rejects the
tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be
killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea
cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city. As
Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an
education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is
raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her
privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the
ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years,
each searches for meaning in the study of Pu'er, the tea that has
shaped their family's destiny for centuries. A powerful story about
circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird
Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and
its people and celebrates the bond of family.
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