The Strong Girl of the Seventies: Snaring Pigs and Carrying Babies on the Road to Survival

Yu Duoduo, seventeen years old, uneducated, tough as nails, and strong as an ox. Born in the 1970s, her whole family lives on wild greens. Her father has just died. All that’s left are her mother and grandmother, one in confinement after childbirth and the other in a wheelchair. Her little brother has a fever and has turned yellow all over. With a piglet in her left arm and the child in her right, she sets off by ox cart for the county seat to get her brother treated, only to find herself in a highway survival challenge. The piglet oinks, the old ox moos, her brother wails, and Yu Duoduo sniffles... Yellow sand stretches as far as the eye can see. Not a blade of grass grows. Wolves prowl, and poisonous creatures slither everywhere. She’s the pillar of her family! Determined to bring her little brother back to their mother and grandmother, Yu Duoduo grits her teeth and takes on the deadly course with a child in tow.