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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane / Lisa See.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction See Tea
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- See, Lisa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--China--Fiction.
- Women.
- Akha (Southeast Asian people)--Fiction.
- Akha (Southeast Asian people).
- Unmarried mothers--Fiction.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans.
- Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Tea--China--Fiction.
- Tea.
- Adopted children--Fiction.
- Adopted children.
- Chinese American teenagers--California--Fiction.
- Chinese American teenagers.
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Tea trade--China--Fiction.
- Tea trade.
- Yunnan Sheng (China)--Fiction.
- Yunnan Sheng (China).
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 371 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2017
- Summary:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781501154829 : HRD
- 1501154826 : HRD
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