The Mountain Moon Accompanies Me Home with Books

Protagonist: Lin Xiu, born in the 1970s, eldest daughter of a family in the mountains of Southwest China, formerly a village schoolteacher, later a migrant worker in Guangdong

Core themes: The hardships and spiritual resilience of women born in the 1970s, the struggles of ordinary people in the early years of reform and opening up, and the challenges and hope of education in remote mountain regions