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Summary: Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017