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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Chan, Jessamine, author.     Subjects     Chinese American women -- Fiction.     Single mothers -- Fiction.     Motherhood -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chan, Jessamine, author.       by title:      The school for good ...         MARC Display

The school for good mothers : a novel / Jessamine Chan. by Chan, Jessamine, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. Subjects Chinese American women -- Fiction.   Single mothers -- Fiction.   Motherhood -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781982156121 (hardcover) : 1982156120 (hardcover) : Description:  324 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year at a newly-created institution, where she practices parenting with bad mothers from all over the county. There, she learns to love an uncannily life-like toddler girl doll in order to demonstrate her maternal instincts and prove to her family court judge that she deserves a second chance. Frida is an outsider in every way: better educated, more affluent, and the only Asian. The mothers, whose transgressions range from benign to horrific, are under constant surveillance. If they don't pass all the school's tests, their parental rights will be terminated. Inspired by dystopian classics such as 1984, Never Let Me Go, and The Handmaid's Tale, the novel eviscerates the dominant American parenting culture, while highlighting the tragedy of state-sponsored family separation. Is there one right way to mother? Can a bad mother ever be redeemed? With warmth, heart, and dark humor, the novel tells a timeless story of a mother fighting to win back her child, and her struggle to hold onto her integrity while being indoctrinated"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Science Fiction Chan sf Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hana P/S Library Adult Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Science Fiction Chan Science Fiction Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Science Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Koloa P/S Library Adult Science Fiction Chan   Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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