Stacey D'Erasmo is a terrific writer. --Dorothy Allison
"Tea is a pure and profound book; a ravishing book. After I'd finished reading it I couldn't start reading anything else for a while--it just didn't seem necessary. Stacey D'Erasmo is, simply, the real thing, and this book is a work of art." --Michael Cunningham author of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Hours