Border Town Echo

A realistic novel focusing on the social ecology of people in counties in China. In a county town, a group of ordinary people's fates were quietly intertwined because of a leaked medical examination report. A female teahouse owner, a truck driver, a bank employee, a retired teacher... Ten groups of men and women. Under the combined impact of a network of acquaintances in the county, economic pressure and the sudden epidemic, their secret "second lives" are on the verge of being exposed. With scalpel-like precision, the author dissects the complex texture of the county in transition: the pull of human relationships and institutions, the anxiety of climbing and frustration, the silence and betrayal inside and outside marriage. There is no idle word in the book, and super realistic details such as prices, documents, monitoring, and data traces create a breathtaking sense of reality. The choices made by the characters in the storm are not only a test of personal morality, but also a microscopic manifestation of the symptoms of the times. This is not only a story about secrets and lies, but also a picture of how ordinary people stagger forward between the cramped reality and inner desires. Everyone hears their own heartbeat in the echo.