000			02792cam a22003978i 4500
001			on1226073462
003			OCoLC
005			20220201100847.0
008			201202s2022 nyu e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2020046841
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dBDX _dYDX _dOCLCF _dTOH _dJCX _dGL4 _dIH9 _dCNCAR _dOCL _dOCLCO _dVAX _dTCH _dNFG
019			_a1286846795
020			_a9781982156121 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1982156120 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781982156138 _q(paperback)
020			_a1982156139 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1226073462 _z(OCoLC)1286846795
042			_apcc
092			_aCHAN, _bJESSAMIN
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aChan, Jessamine, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe school for good mothers : _ba novel / _cby Jessamine Chan.
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
263			_a2201
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2022.
300			_a324 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aChinese American women _vFiction. _956334
650		0	_aSingle mothers _vFiction. _98914
650		0	_aMotherhood _vFiction. _973201
655		7	_aDystopian fiction. _2lcgft _9213996
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c341983 _d341983