Tonight, We Have to Get to the Bottom of This is a collection of children's novellas and short stories that excels in storytelling, artistry, and its reflection of the times. Each story is ingeniously structured, both logical and surprising, and grounded in reality. The tales brim with childhood fun and innocence: children fish and catch shrimp in Dongting Lake, gather water chestnuts and dig lotus roots, dive underwater, and splash one another. Although the characters and events are fictional, they feel real, as if these people and things truly existed. Even the most ingenious twists feel entirely believable.
