Tea, Tradition and Separation

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 30, 2017

Best-selling novelist Lisa See joins us to discuss her latest book, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. It follows Li-yan, a woman who is part of the Chinese ethnic minority known as the Akha, and the young daughter she gives up for adoption. Her daughter is adopted by an American couple and raised in California. The two lead different lives, but still want to know more about each other.

Author Lisa See will speak and sign books at Books & Greetings (271G Livingston Street, Northvale, N.J.) on March 31 at 7 p.m.

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