✪ The latest novel from the winning author of the 2020 Taipei International Book Fair Awards
✪ Selected for Books from Taiwan

At 20, Yue-Ching believes her future is limitless. It’s the late 1980s, Taiwan is flourishing in the glow of an economic miracle, and as a student at the nation’s most prestigious university, she is certain that her life will rise alongside her country’s newfound prosperity.

However, as the years pass, her optimism slowly fades while she finds herself eventually reduced to a faceless office worker. Now in her forties, a chance encounter with a former college friend forces her to confront the past two decades and the unsettling realization that she has become exactly what she once feared—ordinary.

Yue-Ching’s life unfolds against the backdrop of monumental global and local upheavals: Taiwan’s student-led democracy movements, the Tiananmen Square protests, the fall of the Berlin Wall, China’s rapid economic rise and the disillusion of it, and the haunting collapse of the Twin Towers. It is an era of both turmoil and hope, a time when she and her friends truly believed they could change the world—until life teaches them otherwise.

FROM TOMORROW, I WILL BE A HAPPY PERSON is a sweeping and evocative novel that captures a generation caught between the passionate idealism of youth and the sobering realities of adulthood. Through Yue-Ching’s intimate and bittersweet journey, it explores the tension between personal ambition and the unrelenting forces of history, offering a poignant meditation on time, disillusionment, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit.