The life of middle-aged people is just a chicken feather.

When I read this book, my father laughed at me bitterly and said that I was reading "Enlightenment from Production and Life". As a proletarian, I work as a white-collar worker and earn moonlight. We should pay more attention to raising pigs scientifically and how to get rich. I made a face at him and went on reading my book.

This book tells the story of a family who immigrated to the United States and eventually became a middle class, but life did not seem to get better. Everyone has a chicken feather in his life.

The story begins with Huang Xiangyi, the head of the family, suffering from cancer. Life is not a rehearsal, every day is a live broadcast, but the script is not as critical as you. No matter how hard it is, bite the bullet and carry it out until death takes everything away quickly and you have no time to say goodbye.

The author's brushwork is vivid, never letting go of any tiny detail in life. It is these details that make us feel very real, as if we are the protagonists in the book, and we don't even have time to catch our breath in the face of endless difficulties in life.

From Huang Xiangyi, the head of the family, to the hopeless life of his mother after more than 30 years, to his younger brother Fred's obsession with the rich second generation, trying to change his destiny with the help of others, and then to his younger sister Kate's being too sensitive and neurotic.

Everyone is struggling, there is no way to further realize the class transition, but taking a step back doesn't look so bad. It's just that my heart has been suffering. The younger generation is facing their middle-aged crisis, mortgage, car loan and work pressure, children's education problems, the older generation is facing their physical and emotional problems, but also beware of being cheated and treading on thin ice. Everyone has their own troubles and pains, and no one can save them.

What impressed me most was that this book didn't focus on it, but it gave me a heavy blow.

People's prejudice is even more terrible than cancer.

Even if Fred graduated from Harvard and became an executive, his career was successful, because he lived in the white world and faced prejudice and discrimination from people of color all the time. It is also the original sin. The more I want to tear off my label, the more I struggle and brag to my girlfriend, the more painful it is. He is worried that the lie will be exposed one day and that his girlfriend's family will expand because of boasting about Haikou.

The life of middle-aged people, where there are quiet years, is a chicken feather.

We must step on this chicken feather.

End.