Summary
At five years old, Jiang Yao’s desperate mother leaves her beside a train station and tells her to cling to the first kind stranger she sees.
That stranger, Jiang Changhai, gives up his ticket home and spends the rest of his life building a family around the abandoned little girl.
Through buried trauma, schoolyard cruelty, danger, laughter, and love, Jiang Yao discovers that a true home can be pieced together one stubborn heart at a time.