Half a Life Gone, I've Learned to Adjust

This book follows five people born in the 1980s who grew up in the same rural alley. They were born in the same year, lived on the same street, and attended the same elementary school, yet their lives took completely different turns. At forty, all five attended a reunion for their elementary school classmates hosted by their teacher’s son. As they chatted, they learned about one another’s lives: one had passed the civil service exam and become a teacher, another had become a government official, one was ill and barely hanging on, another was a resentful housewife, and one was just coasting at work…