"The Rest of Her Life Is an Accommodation" takes the life of a mother who was born in 1981 as its axis, and uses delicate brushstrokes to outline the suffering and tenacity of a Chinese woman under the torrent of the times and the shackles of her original family.
Lost at the age of twelve, she became a helpless orphan, making a living on her own amidst the indifference of her siblings. At the age of seventeen, she married into a poor family and encountered a gambling-addicted husband and a mean mother-in-law. She was used as a reproductive tool and cheap labor. Ever since she gave birth to her eldest daughter, she has been living in the shadow of patriarchal preference. Even her biological daughter was almost given away, and she even lost her second daughter who was trafficked, which became a lifelong scar that cannot be healed.
After giving birth to a boy at the age of twenty-six, the burden of life has not eased. In order to support her children, she left her hometown to work part-time, using cheap labor for a few dollars an hour, overdrafting her body in exchange for food and clothing for the whole family, leaving all the good things to her children, while she was frugal and riddled with all kinds of diseases.
This is a mother's life: no favoritism, no self, no perfection. She accommodated herself to the injustice of fate, the misfortune of her marriage, and her mean relatives, but she never accommodated herself. When time finally left the root of diabetes in her body, this novel uses the most realistic writing to describe the struggles of lower-class women in family relationships, marriage and survival, and also hides every child's deepest guilt and tribute to their mother.
This is the epitome of motherhood for a generation, and it is also an affectionate inquiry about love, sacrifice and reconciliation.
Purpose: To write down a mother's forbearance and sacrifice, and to pay tribute to every unseen mother.