The novel "How Far is the Road to Heaven" is an emotional novel of the urban era. It tells the ups and downs of the heroine Shi Bi'er's life experience in the past 40 years from the late 1980s to the beginning of this century. The pain of emotional breakdown and the loss of a child caused her to lose her job and lose her job. After learning from the pain, we can find the direction of life again and return to the normal trajectory of life. The story is close to life and deeply touching. It truly reflects the true phenomenon that in the transformation of society from poverty to prosperity, from backwardness to progress, people's thoughts have also experienced from excitement and curiosity to confusion, following the trend, to indifference, and finally returning to themselves. The materials of the works come from life and reveal true feelings. It is a novel with realistic themes.