Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang

I have read the Dutch version of Factory Girls, Fabrieksmeisjes, the cover looks very different from the USA/UK cover, like this:

When I spotted this book the first time in a bookstore, I was getting curious and wanted to read it very badly. Books about China are always favorite and somehow this book reminded me of the documentary China Blue(see previous post about this topic).
Last week I when I was at a bookstore at the airport, I couldn't hold myself any longer an bought it, the book is pretty expensive here so I expected a lot of it.
Author Leslie Chang follow a few young girls, immigrant workers who have immigrated from their rural Chinese villages to a city to work in a factory. She descirbe the lifes, ups and downs of the girls. The focus is not on the work itself, it is more on evrything around it, where the girls live, their friendships and relationships with family and parents back home, new jobs of the girls, and the author also gives a look into her own family's Chinese family tree. This might be interesting, but somehow it doesn't get you. The book is very fragmentarial, and it hops from one point to the other, wich makes it confusing and hard to follow.
Could have been a more interesting book, it is quite a thick book, but the story just misses a spine.