一个普通家庭，密布了几代人的恩怨，夹杂着千丝万缕的情感。母亲杨云和父亲罗家园的婚姻，烙上了特殊时代的伤痕。作为亲兄弟的罗想农、罗卫星，又有着大相径庭的人生抉择和情感生活：罗想农与李娟匆忙结婚，生活的抑郁让妻子患上了精神分裂症。弟弟罗卫星自始至终没有找到爱情的归宿，几十年都在分分合合的婚姻中度过。本书不仅让三代人的情感纠葛在物质富饶的时代碰撞，而且尽显中国式婚姻的困惑和裂变。(It is a common family that is full of gratitude and resentment of several generations amid countless emotions. The marriage between Yang Yun, the mother, and Luo Jiayuan, the father, is branded with scars of a special era. As brothers, Luo Xiangnong and Luo Weixing have very different life choices and romances: Luo Xiangnong and Li Juan rushed into marriage and the wife suffered from schizophrenia due to the depression in life. The younger brother Luo Weixing, who experienced several separations and reunions over the past several decades, never found permanent love. The book not only describes the emotional entanglements of the three generations in an age of plenty but also fully shows the confusions and changes in Chinese marriage.)