{"product_id":"tea-by-the-sea-9781597098458","title":"Tea by the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Featured in \u003cem\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Selected as one of the Best Books of the Week by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA seventeen-year-old taken from her mother at birth; an Episcopal priest with a daughter whose face he cannot bear to see; a mother weary of searching for her lost child: \u003cem\u003eTea by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is their story--that of a family uniting and unraveling. To find the daughter taken from her, Plum Valentine must find the child's father who walked out of a hospital with the day-old baby girl without explanation. Seventeen years later, weary of her unfruitful search, Plum sees an article in a community newspaper with a photo of the man for whom she has spent half her life searching. He has become an Episcopal priest. Her plan: confront him and walk away with the daughter he took from her. From Brooklyn to the island of Jamaica, \u003cem\u003eTea by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e traces Plum's circuitous route to find her daughter and how Plum's and the priest's love came apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHemans, Donna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJamaican-born \u003cstrong\u003eDonna Hemans\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eRiver Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2003-4 Towson University Prize for Literature. \u003cem\u003eTea by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e, for which she won the Lignum Vitae Una Marson Award for Adult Literature, is her second novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the\u003cem\u003e Caribbean Writer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWitness\u003c\/em\u003e, and the anthology \u003cem\u003eStories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. She received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University and an MFA from American University. She lives in Greenbelt, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527934382354,"sku":"9781597098458","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b10b0e22-4b71-45f9-940b-a376e050feb9.jpg?v=1731317875","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tea-by-the-sea-9781597098458","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}