Girls on the Line
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Sixteen-year-old Luli has just aged out of the orphanage where she grew up, and her childhood friend Yun helps her get a job at the factory where Yun works. Both girls enjoy the freedom of making their own decisions and earning their own money; until Yun gets pregnant by her boyfriend, who's rumored to be a human trafficker. China's restrictive family planning laws put Yun in a difficult position: she'll either have to have an expensive abortion or face crippling fines for having a child out of wedlock. When she disappears, it's up to Luli to track her down and find a way to help her.
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My mom picked this up and LOVED IT and kept bugging me to read it and I did and I'm like......struggling to understand because I wouldn't really urge anyone to read this? The #OwnVoices portrayal of contemporary-ish (it's set in 2009) China is interesting and detailed, but overall it felt to me like it would be best used in a classroom, alongside nonfiction instruction about Chinese law and culture. It felt like it was doing a lot of telling about life in the factories and the harsh applications of the Family Planning laws, with less showing about the characters. IDK, definitely interesting story content but for me the execution left me a little cold. But, my mom would give it 5 stars.
