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poet laureate
the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart--a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker--places today's headlines in the sweep of history
and city life
Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks
a self-professed dreamer
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Literary Fiction poet laureateIn their remote mountain village, Li yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The stranger's arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li yan, one of the few
