This was not an easy book to read, in fact I couldn't get into it so I didn't finish it. I thought it was going to be about tea ceremonies in Japan or China but was not that at all. Maybe it's because of my age (72) but I like light, uplifting reading in world of violence and mind-numbing sci-fi which I don't like at all. I like a book that has innocence in it that is so hard to find these days.