The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
15 hrs. 40 min.
Description
Tea from shops is often no better than ordinary straw, and the process of growing it on terraces is just a show. Real tea is known for how to make it—by the akha tradition, by the people who have been creating medicinal puer for centuries. In mountain villages, they take care of tea trees following ancient customs. The girl Lian was also taught these traditions, but after a terrible ritual with infant twins, she rejects the old ways.
Her life is full of changes: she falls in love, works as a translator for a sly entrepreneur, becomes a single mother who leaves her child in an orphanage, becomes the wife of a drug addict, and a student. Like the akha swing, she sways between devotion to her people’s ideals and their rejection.
This captivating story, where puer tea plays a central role, is Liza Si’s new success—she is known for “The Snow Flower and the Fan That Was Forbidden,” “Peony Pavilion,” “The Girls of Shanghai,” and “The Inner Circle of Madame Tan.”
Her life is full of changes: she falls in love, works as a translator for a sly entrepreneur, becomes a single mother who leaves her child in an orphanage, becomes the wife of a drug addict, and a student. Like the akha swing, she sways between devotion to her people’s ideals and their rejection.
This captivating story, where puer tea plays a central role, is Liza Si’s new success—she is known for “The Snow Flower and the Fan That Was Forbidden,” “Peony Pavilion,” “The Girls of Shanghai,” and “The Inner Circle of Madame Tan.”
