The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness

This reads very much autobiographical, even though the author says it's “not quite fact, not quite fiction”. The narration is moving between the present and a past set in the late 1970ies. Back then, during the day, she worked on the conveyor belt of an electronics factory, producing stereos, while at night she went to high school. The present is a rather distracting stream of consciousness, but the stories of the past are fascinating: the widespread poverty, the shame associated with being a factory girl, the tumultuous political climate, the struggles of forming the first unions at the sweatshops, the friends she made along the way, the devoted older brother who took it upon himself to care for all his younger siblings, ...