The tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / See, Lisa
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / See, Lisa	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / See, Lisa	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / See, Lisa	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Read by Ruthie Ann Miles and Kimiko Glenn.
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. 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.

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interesting Chinese tea family submitted by leea on June 23, 2017, 10:34am Another great book by Lisa See. Li-Yan's life as tea girl growing up in Yunnan village. With the knowledge of how to recognize different type of tea tree leaf help her achieve many thing that a women from a Chinese ethnic minority wouldn't get. i enjoy the relationship she had with her mother the medicine woman and learn some history of what tea leaf in fermented.

Amazing story submitted by Duckling on July 26, 2017, 12:33pm I am not sure what caused me to request this book but I did and I will never be the same. If you are reading this I suggest that you get this book. It is an amazing story and how the voices that read the story in this book on CD are great at bringing the words to life. I couldn't stop listening. This book really gets you to think about the differences in culture, adoptions, and tea. This book has honestly changed my life.