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"Quiet and Fat" is the first novel collection of writer Lu Huixin, which includes 11 short stories. A gentle and sharp pen writes about the love and desire of workers, the dotted life experience of wanderers, and the self-abandonment and self-salvation of obese people. But the most important thing is "all kinds of natural and man-made disasters that only women will encounter." With a seemingly ordinary tone, forbearing and forced emotions, and accurate and delicate turns, the adolescent, post-adolescent, and middle-aged women who are easily classified as "losers" are thoughtfully picked up by the author and left to dry in the sun. Ordinary people one after another are trapped in a helpless body and an era that cannot be shaken. Urban men and women who were ruined by relationships or families, lonely young girls who participated in social gatherings, truck workers, sons of scavengers, bombing survivors, and even vagabonds, whether they are widowed, lonely, fat, or melancholic, they all belong. These people may be far away from a happy life, but the author feels spiritually connected with them, so he uses the novel to collect the rare light emitted by those extra people and extra things.