Title The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane / Lisa See.

Publication Info.	Farmington Hills, Mich. : Large Print Press, 2018.
	©2017

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Edition	Large print edition.
Description	633 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Summary	Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate, the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change . Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city.
Subject	Tea trade -- China -- Fiction.
	Akha (Southeast Asian people) -- Fiction.
	Group identity -- China -- Fiction.
	Chinese American teenagers -- California -- Fiction.
	Adopted children -- Fiction.
	Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
	Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Fiction.
	Tea -- China -- Fiction.
	Women -- China -- Fiction.
	Intercountry adoption -- Fiction.
	Unmarried mothers -- Fiction.
	Adopted children. (OCoLC)fst00797050
	Akha (Southeast Asian people) (OCoLC)fst01759622
	Chinese American teenagers. (OCoLC)fst00857241
	Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
	Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
	Intercountry adoption. (OCoLC)fst00976069
	Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
	Tea. (OCoLC)fst01144120
	Tea trade. (OCoLC)fst01144179
	Unmarried mothers. (OCoLC)fst01162002
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	China -- Yunnan Sheng. (OCoLC)fst01213585
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
	Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
ISBN	9781432837723
	1432837729

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