[Leggi] [Boeke] The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
By Lisa See
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See
explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been
adopted by an American couple.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
