Life is Pastoral: an 80-year-old Mother's Interesting Journey Across the Ocean

About This Novel

The author uses a documentary essay style and a happy and readable writing style to tell the story of his mother in the United States. Through a series of interesting and lovely stories, he depicts the family connotation of "a Chinese and American family" and the emotional connotation of "Chinese mother-in-law" and "American son-in-law". The "Chinese mother-in-law" rushes to the United States to visit her daughter and son-in-law. In fact, she is "detecting" and "investigating" her son-in-law. It is a typical "mother-in-law to visit her son-in-law." Through chatting together, raising chickens, growing vegetables, fishing, catching crabs, spring outings, festivals, seeing doctors, guarding relatives and friends, going to church... Bit by bit, every detail, every detail, the Chinese mother-in-law saw her daughter's real life in the United States and her son-in-law's real behavior at home. The result was that the mother-in-law looked at her son-in-law, and the more she watched, the happier she became. In the book, the mother-in-law not only "visits her son-in-law", but also visits her foreign in-laws, foreign grandchildren, foreign relatives, foreign neighbors, and foreign friends. This book is full of the blending and conflict of Chinese and American cultures, showing the particularity, interest and joy of Chinese and American combined families.

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