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001 1226073462
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008 201202s2022 nyu e 000 1 eng
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020 _a9781982156121
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020 _a1982156120
_qhardcover
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_qpaperback
020 _a1982156139
_qpaperback
020 _z9781982156145
_qelectronic book
035 _a(OCoLC)1226073462
040 _cAJM
042 _apcc
100 1 _aChan, Jessamine,
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020067480
_eauthor
_911841
245 1 4 _aThe school for good mothers :
_ba novel /
_cJessamine Chan
250 _aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2022
264 4 _c©2022
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.
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_911842
650 0 _aSingle mothers
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650 0 _aMotherhood
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_911843
650 6 _aAméricaines d'origine chinoise
_vRomans, nouvelles, etc
_911844
650 6 _aMères de famille monoparentale
_vRomans, nouvelles, etc
_911845
650 6 _aMaternité
_vRomans, nouvelles, etc
_911846
650 7 _aFICTION / Literary.
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650 7 _aFICTION / Women.
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650 7 _aFICTION / Satire.
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650 7 _aChinese American women.
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650 7 _aMotherhood.
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650 7 _aSingle mothers.
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650 7 _aChinese American women
_vFiction.
_2sears
_911842
650 7 _aSingle parents
_vFiction.
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_911849
650 7 _aMothers
_vFiction.
_2sears
_911341
655 7 _aScience fiction.
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_9923
655 7 _aDystopian fiction.
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655 7 _aFiction.
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655 7 _aDystopian fiction.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aChan, Jessamine.
_tSchool for good mothers.
_dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2022
_z9781982156145
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