"The Humid South" tells the story of an ordinary woman, Lin Qingyu, who went to Europe to study alone at the age of 18, returned to China to start a family and start a business, and then fell into the dilemma of family debt and family love in middle age.
She grew up in a foreign country, learned to accommodate in love, worked hard to take responsibility in marriage, and constantly gave in to the expectations and demands of her native family. Choosing to believe again and again, she gradually shouldered responsibilities that were not hers: nominal legal persons, joint guarantees, and huge loans. When her cash flow was cut off, a lawsuit loomed, and her second child suddenly arrived, she truly realized for the first time that she was already at the bottom of the entire family debt structure.
This is not a success story, but a realistic documentary about consumed women.
From the European campus to the southern river bank, from the breakup of first love to the pressure of marriage, from trust in parents to reaffirmation of partners, "The Moist South" delicately presents the process of how a woman loses her right to judge step by step in the gap between family, love and reality, and then struggles to find herself.
This is a long realistic literature about trust, cost and awakening.
If you have ever been torn between family responsibilities and personal life, this book may help you see yourself.
Purpose: This work explores the living conditions of contemporary women who are constantly squeezed between their native families, intimate relationships and real-life responsibilities through Lin Qingyu's life experience from returning from studying abroad to middle-aged difficulties. She chose to believe and take responsibility again and again, but gradually became the bearer of family debts and emotional expectations. The work attempts to show the structural exploitation hidden behind family affection and responsibility, and how women lose their right to judge in the long-term self-depletion, and then reaffirm their relationship with their partners on the verge of collapse. This is not only a record of an individual's destiny, but also a realistic reflection on contemporary family relationships, emotional attachment and female awakening.