Chicken Feathers Entangle Half a Life

Born in the impoverished countryside of southern Sichuan in the 1990s, Zhou Yang grows up amid the ebb and flow of the times. Half a lifetime of smoke and fire, a floor strewn with chicken feathers. In the lowest rungs of rural life, he is swept along by trivial matters, pulled by fame and profit, bound by family ties, and repeatedly worn down by the warmth and coldness of human hearts. He rises from the mud, struggles through tangled rights and wrongs, and presses forward step by step amid worldly schemes, fickle human feelings, and the bitter exhaustion of life. There are no heaven-sent opportunities, no smooth-sailing life—only an ordinary country boy who shoulders all the hardships of the years and endures half a lifetime of wandering. In the ordinary days of scattered chicken feathers, he breaks free from fate, tramples through obstacles, and forges a life path of ups and downs that is uniquely his own. Half a lifetime of hardship, half a lifetime of seeking; though chicken feathers are light, they are hard to shake off for half a life. — Description from novelcodex.org