![]() ![]() Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. ![]() ![]() The stranger’s arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations-until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” ( The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. ![]()
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