Haihe Town

This is a story about searching for one's roots in the 1990s. Lin Qinhua grew up in a single-parent family and had never seen her father. Her mother, Lin Xian, had never told her who he was, either. Since childhood, Lin Qinhua had been intensely curious and sorrowful about her origins, yearning deeply for love. Guided by a girl's sixth sense, she suspected that her background, her biological father, and her grandfather were all connected to her grandfather's hometown of Haihe Town. After starting university, she used a holiday internship as an excuse to secretly travel alone to Haihe Town in Shehai County, northern Jiangsu, and begin her search for her roots. As the novel unfolds, the generations-long feuds and tangled loves and hatreds between two village gentry families and a bandit family prove gripping and thrilling. The story probes the beauty and ugliness, goodness and evil at the depths of human nature, while portraying the sweeping changes of the times.