The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel
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Published
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Status
Sequim - Fiction (Adult)
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adopted children -- Fiction.
Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- China -- Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers -- California -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Group identity -- China -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Tea trade -- China -- Fiction.
Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- China -- Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers -- California -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Group identity -- China -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Tea trade -- China -- Fiction.
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Published
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea in their remote Yunnan village. Then a stranger arrives, finding the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. Li-yan translates for the stranger. When she has a baby outside of wedlock she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her near an orphanage. Adopted by a couple in California, Haley grows up privileged and well-loved. As Haley wonders about her origins, Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They find answers in the tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.