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Chan, Jessamine, author.
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Chinese American women -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
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The school for good ...
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The school for good mothers : a novel / Jessamine Chan.
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Chan, Jessamine, author.
New York : Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner, 2023.
Subjects
Chinese American women -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781982156138 (paperback) :
1982156139 (paperback)
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Read with Jenna.
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325 pages ; 21 cm
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First Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner trade paperback edition.
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"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library
Adult Science Fiction
Chan
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07/13/2024
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