The Eldest Sister of the Family

She was always top of her class, yet dropped out to work the fields. After laboring at home for ten years, she finally married, then built a life from nothing. She bought a four-wheeled vehicle, leased farmland, and worked hard to get rich, putting both her children through university and fulfilling every one of her childhood dreams.

This is a period novel modeled on the author's mother. Spanning the years from 1954 to 2024, it records the vivid lives of people born in the 1950s and the 1980s, drawing on her experiences, the stories she told, and the author's observations over the years.