The Test-Tube Saga

Three couples meet while undergoing IVF: a highly educated white-collar couple, an ordinary working-class couple from the city, and an older farming couple. How will their different outlooks and living and working environments collide? What heartache and helplessness will they face on the road to IVF? What is the meaning of having children: carrying on the family line, giving life a fuller meaning, or securing a marriage...?

At 35, Nan Sheng leads a glamorous life as a white-collar professional, but her path to motherhood is full of hardship. A perfectionist, she ultimately makes peace with herself and adopts a child with special needs. Lively and adorable Lu Tiantian represents the post-2000 generation: young and ambitious, yet caught in a crisis involving both her career and family. As an older mother, Zhang Youmei endures extraordinary hardship to bear and raise a child without complaint, embodying the endurance and sacrifice of a traditional woman.

This book has laughter, tears, helplessness, and acceptance...