I've enjoyed See's other books, but this one: not so much. To be fair, the author dropped a pretty obvious clue in her opening pages. "No coincidence, no story," should've alerted me that I'd need to suspend disbelief to accept the plot twists in this book. (See has relied on coincidence more subtly in her other books so I was assuming she'd manage it artfully here as well.)

What I liked: learning about Chinese village customs, learning about tea, the two story lines that contrasted China with the US, the glimpses of the adoption process.