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The winning work of the 132nd Naoki Prize. A female friendship novel and female coming-of-age novel that touched countless people. The story mainly revolves around three women. Sayoko, a housewife who decides to return to the workplace, meets her boss Aoi during the process of job hunting, and looks forward to the life of Aoi, a single professional woman who lives a chic life. Aoi runs a company, and she enthusiastically accepts Sayoko, who is struggling to find a job. However, when she was a student, Aoi suffered from campus bullying. It was not until she met the free and uninhibited Yuzi that she realized the joy and power of having friends. However, after Yuzi and Kui ran away from home together and attempted to jump off a building, causing a sensation in public opinion, their mutual dependence came to an abrupt end with Yuzi's move. On the other side of Sayoko, a housewife who is trapped in daily necessities and childcare, is Aoi, a single professional woman who leads a chic life. On the other side of Aoi, who was troubled by school bullying when she was young and struggled to cope with interpersonal relationships, is her friend Yuzi who does not care about the troubles of the world but eventually disappears. "She" on the other side is a beacon in the long night, a beam of light that shines into the heart. There is a certain aspect of "her" that is what she wants to be. It is the countless "shes" on the other side that give them the strength to be strong and upward.

Women are weak by nature, but mothers are strong. This is the world's greatest malice towards women. Five reasons why you must read this annual work on women's voices: 1. Mainstream media such as Beijing News, Jiemian Culture, and The Paper are reporting on the screen; 2. KOLs such as Wu Zhihong, Anti-Pants Front, and Luo Zhen are hotly discussed; 3. Sir movies, Film and television public accounts such as Independent Fish and Crow Movies meet each other late; 4. The adaptation of the play of the same name continues to be on the Douban Weibo topic list, with hundreds of thousands of netizens calling in unison; 5. Hao Jingfang, Hou Hongbin, Ku Suo, Zhang Yiwei and other seven cultural women have sincerely recommended it. Risako, a new mother, was selected as a jury to face the trial of an "evil mother" who killed her young daughter. As the trial progressed, Risako discovered that the defendant was so similar to himself... He gave up his career to raise children, but lost the last bit of his own space; no matter how much hard work he put in, he would be taken for granted, and no matter how little his husband helped, he would be praised by the outside world; there were countless questions and difficulties in child care, but they would only be dismissed as "this is how everyone gets here." Risako began to wonder: "Is it possible that every mother will become a suspect in the dock because of these experiences?"

11 groups of warm food stories and 33 miracles of life reversal. A person will always experience countless dinners in his life, and the memories of each dinner are unique: the dinner when he came home from school, the dinner on graduation day, the dinner before breaking up, the dinner before going to work, the dinner before going abroad, the dinner with old friends, the dinner before moving, the dinner before divorce, the dinner before parents passed away... Memories about dinners constitute the continuous scenery of our lives and the testimony of our continuous progress. Perhaps, while you are eating today's dinner, the reversal of your life has quietly happened in an invisible place.

Every summer, seven unrelated families gather together for a few days to spend undistracted and happy time. However, the party came to an abrupt end one year. The parents remained silent about the reason, and the seven children had no choice but to separate. Their curiosity about their own lives and questions about family relationships were also buried in their hearts as the party ended. Many years later, the seven children grew up individually. Some were prosperous and healthy, while others were gloomy and desperate. Some people become elites but are unable to love; some people have happy families but are blocked from having children; some people follow the crowd and play in the world; some people are self-exiled and lonely. There was a child who became a singer but faced the danger of blindness due to genetic problems. In order to find a cure, she issued a summons to her childhood friends who were lost in the sea of ​​​​people...

"March's Invitation" begins with a ridiculous divorce party and ends with a carefully prepared wedding ceremony. It writes about the emotions, life, work and confusion of a group of men and women. The successful columnist Mitsuru, the school sweetheart Udao who has lost his glory, Yumiko, a wealthy girl whose marriage failed, Masamichi, a playboy who is not professional in love, and Mami, a seemingly mediocre housewife, are all classmates who walked together in college, although they have gradually moved on in their respective lives. They are far away, but they still keep recalling the emotions of the past to get together. They are either single, divorced, married, successful, or failed... The novel focuses on the protagonists' current subtle living conditions, rethinking of life, and friendship and love in their thirties.