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Born to a family of artists in Shanghai, China in the late 1950s, a fateful decision made at the age of seventeen landed the author in China's Great Northern Wasteland, the Chinese counterpart of the rustic Siberia. This book tells the story of a child born with privilege but soon to face the great social injustice brought upon millions of Chinese during the turbulent time of the Cultural Revolution, his disillusionment and struggles, and his journey to the United States. 作者于1950年代出生在上海。十七岁时作出的一个激进决定， 让他一步跨到了大兴安岭山麓黑龙江边一个荒凉的边境小村落里。这本回忆录记述了作者童年时代在文化大革命中目睹的社会动荡与变迁， 他对理想的追求和幻灭， 以及他最终如何走出黑土地的故事。

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The author's childhood dream was to join the army, then the Red Guard when the Cultural Revolution started, a plan that would never materialize. His parents were soon politically purged, and he witnessed the suicide of his best friend's mother. As he was growing up, he himself nearly crossed the society's red line, purely by accident. Yet he still managed to hold on to his belief in Communism and volunteered after high school to go the Sino-Soviet border as a militiaman, where he struggled to reconcile the stark contradiction between the ideals and reality. After Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, he was enrolled in a medical school among the first group of college students in more than a decade, where he started a journey to undo his past endeavors and retake control of his own destiny.

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