The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel / Lisa See.
Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: ix, 371 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781501154829 (hardback)
- 1501154826 (hardback)
- Psychological fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Ficiton
- FICTION / Sagas
- FICTION / Literary
- Women -- China -- Fiction
- Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Fiction
- Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Intercountry adoption -- Fiction
- Tea -- China -- Fiction
- Akha (Southeast Asian people)
- Chinese Americans
- Intercountry adoption
- Mothers and daughters
- Tea
- Unmarried mothers
- Women
- Chinese-American teenagers -- California -- Fiction
- 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
- Tea trade -- China -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Fiction
- China
- China -- Yunnan Sheng
- 813/.6 23
- PS3569.E3334 T43 2017
- FIC019000 | FIC008000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | SEE | Available | 065999 |
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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.