Tea by Tiffany

HELP KEEP TEA-LIT ALIVE!!! Some of you have been asking when will the book club be active… well I need a few of you to come on board to help lead this project.

Please email if interested. 

TEALIT

Tea by Tiffany’s book club featuring the titles of Oprah’s Book Club list. We meet once a month to discuss books over Afternoon Tea.

Our First Book Selection: “Say You’re One of Them” 2009 Selection.

Monthly Memebership is $25.  To register click here .

Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.

A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family’s struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle’s attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees—a microcosm of today’s Africa—a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear. 

Uwem Akpan’s debut signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent. read more. 

February Title: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Meeting Date: February 24th at 12 noon.

Description 

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, full of great wealth and glamour, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives, thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business. Though both wave off authority and traditions, they couldn’t be more different. Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and living the carefree life … until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. read more.

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Afternoon Tea Menu

Assorted Tea Sandwiches, Biscuits, Scones, Clotted Cream and Jam,  Assorted Petit Fours along with the best tea you’ve ever tasted.