I Am Still Here (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257916304)

In a modern China where many wives carry marriage, motherhood, and loneliness at the same time, I Am Still Here traces the lives of three women whose choices reveal the hidden cost of love, freedom, and endurance. Huì is a wife and mother who feels more like a single parent than a married woman, raising children in the silence left by a husband who is always gone. Qiàn, her beautiful divorced friend, appears to have escaped into freedom, desire, and self-invention, yet behind the polished life she is fighting a different kind of hunger. And Song, an older mentor with a marriage marked by fire and survival, carries a hard-won wisdom neither younger woman expected to need.

As their lives unfold, the novel enters the private battles many Chinese wives never say aloud: the weight of carrying a home alone, the suspicion of betrayal, the shame of still wanting to be chosen, the fear of growing old unseen, and the question of whether love can be restored once distance has become the atmosphere of a marriage. Tender, piercing, and deeply intimate, this is a story about the emotional lives of Chinese women under pressure, and the dangerous, beautiful possibility that what seems lost may not be gone forever.

Author: James Taylor
ISBN-13: 9798257916304
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2026
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d