Books like The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
12 books with a reading profile close to The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
history, narrative
On New Year's Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish sets out for a walk around Manhattan.
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2
A Piece of the World
history, narrative
Set in the coastal town of Cushing, Maine, this novel imagines the life of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World.
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3
The Wind Knows My Name
history, narrative
In 1938 Vienna, Samuel Adler is a five-year-old Jewish boy whose father disappears on Kristallnacht, and who is sent to England on the Kindertransport.
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4
The Chaperone
history, narrative
In 1922, Cora Carlisle, a conventional Kansas housewife, agrees to chaperone fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks on a summer trip to New York City.
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5
Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
history, narrative
Ana Cancion is fifteen when she marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican Republic in 1965, so that her family can eventually emigrate.
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6
The Birth House
by Ami McKay
history, narrative
Dora Rare is a young woman growing up in a small Nova Scotia village around the First World War.
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7
River Sing Me Home
history, narrative
Set in the aftermath of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in the Caribbean, the story follows Rachel, a field hand on a Barbados plantation.
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8
The Marriage of Opposites
history, narrative
Set on the island of Saint Thomas in the early nineteenth century, this novel follows Rachel Pomie, a woman born into a strict Sephardic Jewish community.
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9
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
history, narrative
Rahima is a girl in Kabul whose father is addicted to opium, and whose family is desperate for money.
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10
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
history, narrative
Set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the narrative follows two city-bred teenagers, Luo and the unnamed narrator, who are sent to a remote mountain village for forced Maoist re-education.
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White Chrysanthemum
history, narrative
Hana lives in a Korean fishing village during the Japanese occupation in 1943, where she is a young woman who dives for a living.
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12
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
history, narrative
The narrative follows a single, fictional Vermeer painting backwards through time, beginning with its mid-century concealment by a man whose father looted it from a Jewish family during the Holocaust.
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