This Year’s Bayberries Are Especially Sweet

This book is a social thriller about a box of unusually sweet bayberries that sends an ordinary woman to the hospital. Her illness leads journalist Fang Wenqing into the hidden chain behind the fruit: pesticide use, chemical soaking, false “natural” labels, bribed inspections, and workers who refuse to eat what they sell. Through one small fruit, the novel exposes greed, silence, and the bitter truth behind manufactured sweetness.