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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane / Lisa See.
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, there is ritual and routine, and life goes on as 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 begin to reject the customs that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock,with a man her parents consider to be a bad mathch, she rejects the tradition to give the child over to be killed and instead, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons the child near an orphanage in a neighboring city. The daughter is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Li-yan longs for her lost daughter and over the years, each search for one another.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781508226536
- ISBN: 1508226539
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2017]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from disc label. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ruthie Ann Miles and Kimiko Glenn. |
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| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Single mothers > Fiction. Abandoned children > Fiction. Tea plantations > Fiction. Pu'er Hanizu Yizu Zizhixian (China) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, there is ritual and routine, and life goes on as 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 begin to reject the customs that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock,with a man her parents consider to be a bad mathch, she rejects the tradition to give the child over to be killed and instead, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons the child near an orphanage in a neighboring city. The daughter is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Li-yan longs for her lost daughter and over the years, each search for one another.
