Transports Readers: Snow Flower and Tea Girl

transports readers: It's a tonic for busyness, a recipe for meditation, an exercise in small pleasures, in joy, according to Hamilton Spectator. Lisa See's wonderful new novel The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane shares many of these same properties. The ritual of preparing it carefully choosing the leaves, heating the water to an exact temperature, steeping the brew in a cherished pot, and then savouring every soothing sip proves both restorative and transformative. The bestselling author's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love latest transports readers to an ancient hill tribe in the mountains of China, as its heroine Li-yan confronts the forces of modernity. The family business is tea, and they harvest some of the best in the world. Li-yan and her family belong to the Akha ethnic minority, who have long lived in harmony with nature, in a village on the remote Nannuo Mountain in Yunnan Province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.