We Stumbled Through Life and Grew Up

Four girls begin with a test paper caught by the wind, and grow up through one stumble after another.

She comes from a single-parent family and studies desperately, all she wants is to “get out.” In the end, she becomes a high school teacher, standing at the lectern and watching each new class pass by, as if she were looking at her younger self.

She is beautiful and gentle, yet slowly loses herself in marriage. Amid the endless domestic mess, she learns to fight back.

She works her way up to a big city and becomes a “success” in everyone’s eyes. Then one day, she suddenly realizes that she has nearly exhausted both body and soul.

She is rebellious, willful, and never plays by the rules. After countless jobs, she finally opens a little café and becomes everyone’s “safe haven.”

This is a novel that follows them from high school to the age of thirty.

There are exams, trains, marriage, work, wounds left by their families, and that promise between best friends: “I’ll always be on your side.”

If you, too, have reached a point in life where you feel poor, exhausted, and lost,

then this book is for you.

May we stumble our way through life and grow up, and may we find the courage to stand our ground amid the everyday mess.