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This was a great eye opener albeit a sad read on what’s going on with the Uyghur and how they’re being treated by the Chinese government. They’re not a very well known group of people and after finishing this book it’s an eye opening experience.

Throughout the novel you follow the narrative of Roshen, who’s left her family behind and a potential fiance to work in a factory. As a reader you already have an idea on how this is going to go as factories over there are usually sweatshops with grueling horrifying conditions. What I was not expecting, and because I didn’t know much of these peoples is they’re on the bottom rung of the ladder everywhere they go. Since they don’t look like your average Chinese, they stick out as a visible minority and because their beliefs are very much different, they get treated horribly and are pretty much slaves.

You follow Roshen and a group of Uyghur girls as they toil through the factory under horrible conditions. You can feel their fear and mistrust, even amongst themselves because anyone can become an informant. What I was not prepared for, was for Hawa’s character. You already had an assumption about her because of her behavior but when she does something completely unspeakable on behalf of Roshen it was a complete blindside. The negative feelings you had towards Hawa disappears completely and is replaced with a kind of respect for what she went through.

Definitely recommended to read. It’s horrifying what these families and girls go through, and awareness is key.


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Factory Girl eBook Josanne La Valley Reviews

I flew through the first half of FACTORY GIRL. Before picking up the book, I hadn’t heard of the Uyghur people. They are a Muslim minority living in China, clinging to their culture and traditions even though the government is trying to eradicate their way of life. Roshen, sixteen, dreams of being a teacher, but when she is picked to work in a factory for a year, her future is suddenly in question.

At first, I was fascinated by Roshen’s life on the farm, the love she and her family had for each other, and the difficult conditions she faced on the way to and at the factory. Apparently, many Uyghur girls are picked to work in China each year, in the hopes that they will leave their culture behind and assimilate. I wish the author had dropped more information about why the government feels working in sweatshops and enduring emotional, mental, and physical abuse will result in such an outcome. Is it because the girls’ families won’t take back their “soiled” daughters? If the worst had happened to Roshen, I felt like her family would still have saved her… I would have liked more clarification on this, because I feel it was a missing part of the book.

I very much liked how Roshen and the other girls relied on and supported each other. The friendships between the girls were the best part of the book for me, and I was disappointed to not find out what happened to them at the end of the book.

Most of FACTORY GIRL is set in a sweatshop, where Roshen endures horrible working conditions, from long hours to little food and more. The descriptions of working in a sweatshop are enlightening, especially if you’ve never read about it before.

But after Roshen is signaled out for “special attention” from the Big Boss, the book took a downturn for me. Quite honestly, I was confused by Roshen’s illness and the outcome of it … unless the point was to show the Uyghur people simply cannot win.
Roshen is a sixteen-year-old Uyghur girl living in northern China who has a good life and big dreams for her future. She is a good student who wants to continue her schooling and become a teacher; she has a family and a boyfriend who love her.

The last day of one term of school, just before her older sister’s wedding, Roshen’s teacher must tell her that she has been ordered by the Chinese government to work in a factory in southern China for at least one year. Whether Roshen goes or refuses to go (or her parents refuse to permit her to go), all her dreams are now dashed. Roshen’s father even offers the family farm for sale to try to keep her at home. Roshen doesn’t want her father to sell their farm, so she goes away to work at a garment factory. Even the journey to the factory is perilous; the bus breaks down (tire blowout) and the girls are exposed to asbestos as they pass a factory on the way to their destination. At the factory, the hours are long; the work is very hard. The factory girls are treated very harshly and watched constantly; even whispering one word in Uyghur, the first language of many of these girls, rather than speaking in Mandarin, meant demerits and a reduction in pay. Attempts to escape could lead to being sent to a “reeducation center” or prison. Roshen doesn’t know which of the other girls might be friendly or which might be informants, so she makes friends, but cautiously.

The style La Valley uses does help readers see Roshen’s world – what the Uyghur people consider proper conduct, what she must do to maintain that code of conduct, and more. The characters are well-developed and realistic. La Valley’s biography states that she lived in the Uyghur homeland and knows her stuff, making this an engaging novel, but I do wish there were more information about how La Valley knows her stuff and a good list of nonfiction resources in the back matter for those who want to learn more.

As I see it, the intended audience for this novel would be about ninth grade or up; harshness keeps me from going for any younger. This and the lack of further resources mentioned in the previous paragraph lead me to give this work the highest possible four-star rating, almost five stars.
This was a great eye opener albeit a sad read on what’s going on with the Uyghur and how they’re being treated by the Chinese government. They’re not a very well known group of people and after finishing this book it’s an eye opening experience.

Throughout the novel you follow the narrative of Roshen, who’s left her family behind and a potential fiance to work in a factory. As a reader you already have an idea on how this is going to go as factories over there are usually sweatshops with grueling horrifying conditions. What I was not expecting, and because I didn’t know much of these peoples is they’re on the bottom rung of the ladder everywhere they go. Since they don’t look like your average Chinese, they stick out as a visible minority and because their beliefs are very much different, they get treated horribly and are pretty much slaves.

You follow Roshen and a group of Uyghur girls as they toil through the factory under horrible conditions. You can feel their fear and mistrust, even amongst themselves because anyone can become an informant. What I was not prepared for, was for Hawa’s character. You already had an assumption about her because of her behavior but when she does something completely unspeakable on behalf of Roshen it was a complete blindside. The negative feelings you had towards Hawa disappears completely and is replaced with a kind of respect for what she went through.

Definitely recommended to read. It’s horrifying what these families and girls go through, and awareness is key.