02530cam a2200469 i 4500 288369539 TxAuBib 20170329120000.0 170126s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017003535 9781410498014 1410498018 TxAuBib rda See, Lisa. The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane [LP] / Lisa See. Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017. ©2017. 635 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover Wheeler Publishing Large Print hardcover "A novel" -- cover. 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. 20170329. Adopted children Fiction. Chinese American teenagers California Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Mothers and Daughters Fiction. Akha (Southeast Asian people) Fiction. Group identity China Fiction. Tea trade China Fiction. Adoption Fiction. Large type books. Large type books. Fiction Literary. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover. Wheeler Publishing Large Print hardcover.