The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lisa See
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781501154829
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Tea; Chinese American teenagers; Fiction; Akha (Southeast Asian people); Unmarried mothers; Group identity; Identity (Psychology); FICTION / Sagas; Intercountry adoption; Adopted children; FICTION / Literary; Mothers and daughters; Women
Description: The story of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.