A review by phoenix2
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

4.0

I picked up this book because this topic interests me. I made my bacherol thesis on the odd ratio between women and men in China, and I do wish this book had come out when I was doing my research, because it gives an insight to how is it to be a woman in China, the cultural transformations the country went through, but the adoption issues as well. Actually, I must congratulate Lisa See, because her work was superb. She not only wrote a novel, but also aproached each character differently and in depth. I was especially amazed by the small passages that she devoted on Haley, her parents and that conversation with the doctor and the other girls was splendid. You could see that the writer had studied hard for this one. Other than that, the story was really good, kind of gave me the gaisha vybes, but not to the point where I could say that this one was a cheap face off. The main character was amazing and I loved how she grew up within the pages of this book, dealing with family, culture, lose and overcoming her own boundaries. I can't really say anything else about this book, other than please read it!! It has a slow start, but it gets better and better by the page!!