This is a private memory history that unfolds from the mother's 19-year-old life point, using "my" growth trajectory as the context, connecting the struggles and resilience of the two generations over time.
The past dictated by my mother contains the confusion and difficulty of her youth; and the memory fragments of "my" are full of the changes that followed one after another on the road to growth - those late-night tears, silent compromises, and forced strength constitute the heaviest footnote of the years. The book does not deliberately exaggerate the suffering, but uses sincere writing to restore those not-so-good days: it is the forbearance of the mother hidden in the wrinkles, the figure of "I" stumbling in the ups and downs, and the warmth of two generations supporting each other in difficulties.
These painful memories eventually become the foundation of life. It may not be bright enough, but it truly records how ordinary people maintain love and courage in the torrent of life, and piece together a complete life of their own in the broken time.
Purpose: to record the process of ordinary people struggling with life and assembling a complete life amidst the changes in suffering.