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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A ... debut novel about a young woman who travels--penniless, pregnant, and homeless--to her deceased mother's small Southern hometown, and becomes embroiled in a local mystery: what forced her mother to flee that town thirty-five years previously?"--
Author
Language
English
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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 that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside...
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