The author recounts in detail the journey from birth through following their parents to Northeast China for school, life, and work, and finally returning to their family's home in Shandong.
The author is short in stature and could be considered a marginal figure at the bottom of society. Yet they have a tenacious spirit and refuse to accept their lot, always willing to make a change. Their life has seen both success and failure.
This book is a truthful and richly detailed account. In spare language and clumsy prose, the author records the life that was theirs. It belongs to the genre of biographical memoir.
