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"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. 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. In...

Salma, a Bedouin woman who was forced out of her village after giving birth to a child out of wedlock, creates a new identity in England, but soon becomes preoccupied with returning to her homeland to find the daughter who was taken from her.