"The Shore" is a realistic novel focusing on Chinese immigrants in California. In the 1990s, his father, Chen Jingshan, went overseas to work hard and devoted half his life to taking root in Los Angeles. He wanted to break away from the difficulties of his hometown and lift the next generation into a higher circle. His son Chen Yu, a teenager, went to California to attend a private high school. With the high hopes of his father, he embarked on a completely different journey to the other side. The father and son share the same desire to go to the other side, but they encounter their own life difficulties in completely different eras and environments. Their parents struggled in the lower-level business circles, wandering in the interest game of small Chinese circles, and witnessed with their own eyes the sudden wealth, bankruptcy, involution, and involution of all living beings in the immigrant community; young people are trapped in the resource gap of American education, and they see the resource gap between public and private schools, racial prejudice, and invisible class barriers. The values of the two generations of father and son are constantly colliding and tearing apart. On one side is the survival philosophy of the older generation that puts hardship first, and on the other side is the thinking of the new generation that has been reshaped by the Western environment. The book draws on the ups and downs of two generations to explore and explore an ultimate proposition: whether the other shore that everyone is trying their best to reach is an ideal harbor or another besieged city.
