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Li-yan is part of the Akha, an ethnic minority in China. Her family makes a living by picking tea. Their first contact with the more modern world comes when a man from Hong Kong arrives looking for pu'er tea. Several events conspire to force Li-Yan into leaving her village and entering the wider parts of China and eventually the U.S. I liked the first part of the book which focused on the Akha. The more modern it got the less interested I became and when the story of Hayley, an adopted Chinese g
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This was a book that I kept wanting to stop what I was doing and get back to reading. At start of the novel, in a small Ahka ethnic minority village in China, we learn the rules for living there which influence everything that happens afterwards. Their ways are harsh, but so is the environment where the people scratch out their living and try to keep in harmony with the spirits. The reader learns a lot about their ways, and about tea, and all of this is fascinating even without the people in the
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