Summary of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: Li-Yan grows up gathering and preparing tea leaves with her family in the Yunnan mountains in China, guided by the traditional beliefs of her Akha tribe. But forced apart from the man she loves and giving up her new-born baby for adoption, she soon questions the validity of her tribes' traditions. Being one of the few educated in her tribe, she learns...