Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (See) - Book Reviews

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Everything about this book drew me in. As an adoptive mother, I sopped up See’s observations surrounding adoption with hungry interest. As a tea lover, I drank up the fascinating history of this industry. As a book lover, I cared deeply about the characters and outcome. Li-Yan does not blindly fall in line with practices and beliefs that go against her heart, but she preserves this truth from her village: "Every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another." With The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See preserves her place as a master of historical fiction. My book club agreed.  READ MORE …
Abby Fabiaschi, AUTHOR - LitLovers

With vivid and precise details about tea and life in rural China, Li-Yan’s gripping journey to find her daughter comes alive.
Publishers Weekly


Coincidences abound in this illuminating novel that contributes historical and social insight into the Akhas.… With strong female characters, See deftly confronts the changing role of minority women, majority-minority relations, East-West adoption, and the economy of tea in modern China. —Suzanne Im, Los Angeles P.L.
Library Journal


Although representing exhaustive research on See's part, and certainly engrossing, the extensive elucidation of international adoption, tea arcana, and Akha lore threatens to overwhelm the human drama. Still, a riveting exercise in fictional anthropology.
Kirkus Reviews