In “The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,” at No. 2 on the L.A. Times bestseller list, Lisa See tells the story of a mother in a remote Chinese village who must give up a child born out of wedlock, ...

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A woman from the Akha tribe of China's Yunnan province becomes a tea entrepreneur as her daughter grows up in California in Lisa See's latest, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. The Tea Girl of ...

Expanding ties between China and the United States form the backdrop of Lisa See’s latest novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, a book about China’s growing prosperity, cross-cultural adoption and, ...

Lisa See’s latest novel, “The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,” takes place in the fascinating world of pu’er tea, from the picking of tea leaves to the distribution of aged, fermented tea cakes in ...

Thus opens Lisa See’s enchanting book, “The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.” Not only is the story’s plot woven with coincidences, but so too is the very existence of the book itself. Not just one ...