I read this book for the OGC Book Club. I didn’t know what to expect from something billed as a funny, lighthearted mystery and this book didn’t disappoint- it exceeded my expectations. The book is smart, funny, thought provoking- an intergenerational story about found family, kindness, and love set in San Francisco and centered around events related to the murder of a man found dead in Vera Wong’s tea shop. Vera is the widowed mother  of a millennial lawyer who is busy with his career despite his mother’s attempts to engage with him and she spends her days selecting tea for her few tea shop customers. One day she finds a dead man in her tea shop and decides she is better equipped to find his murderer than the police. She befriends the four “suspects” and works to find the killer even when the police deem the death an accident caused by an allergic reaction. Vera is very funny- the stereotypical Chinese mother who texts her son to be sure to look for a girlfriend at his law firm and who is up at dawn proclaiming that sleeping in is for Europeans and sick people. Solving the mystery takes a few twists and along the way the reader laughs and cries with the characters. A wonderful book!!