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005			20231102192953.0
008			201202s2022 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2020046841
020			_a9781982156121 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781982156138 _q(paperback)
020			_a1982156120
020			_z9781982156145 _q(ebook)
035			_a129828858
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3603 .H35577 _bS36 2022
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aChan, Jessamine,
245	1	4	_aThe school for good mothers : _ba novel / _cJessamine Chan.
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.
650		0	_aSingle mothers _vFiction.
650		0	_aMotherhood _vFiction.
650		7	_aChinese American women _vFiction. _2sears
650		7	_aUnmarried mothers _vFiction. _2sears
650		7	_aMotherhood _vFiction. _2sears
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2lcgft
655		0	_aScience fiction.
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2gsafd
655		7	_aDystopias. _2gsafd
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aChan, Jessamine. _tSchool for good mothers _dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2022 _z9781982156145 _w(DLC) 2020046842
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