The Tea Woman of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel

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From #1 New York Occasions bestselling writer Lisa See, “a kind of particular writers able to delivering each poetry and plot” (The New York Occasions E book Overview), a transferring novel about custom, tea farming, and the bonds between moms and daughters.
Of their distant mountain village, Li-yan and her household align their lives across the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha folks, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on because it has for generations—till a stranger seems on the village gate in a jeep, the primary car any of the villagers has ever seen.
The stranger’s arrival marks the primary entrance of the trendy world within the lives of the Akha folks. Slowly, Li-yan, one of many few educated ladies on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that formed her youth. When she has a child out of wedlock—conceived with a person her dad and mom take into account a poor selection—she rejects the custom that might compel her to provide the kid over to be killed, and as a substitute leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, close to an orphanage in a close-by metropolis.
As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an training, a enterprise, and metropolis life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive dad and mom. Regardless of her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Throughout the ocean Li-yan longs for her misplaced daughter. Over the course of years, every searches for which means within the research of Pu’er, the tea that has formed their household’s future for hundreds of years.
A strong story about circumstances, tradition, and distance, The Tea Woman of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of slightly identified area and its folks and celebrates the bond of household.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1501154834
Writer ‏ : ‎ Scribner
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2018
Version ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781501154836
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501154836
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Greatest Sellers Rank: #10,528 in Books (See High 100 in Books) #18 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Books) #75 in Household Saga Fiction #437 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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