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100	1		_aChan, Jessamine, _eAuthor _0(DLC)n 2020067480
245	1	4	_aThe School For Good Mothers : _ba novel / _cby Jessamine Chan.
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264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2022.
300			_a324 pages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
380			_aFiction _2marcgt
380			_aBook _2tlcgt
385			_aGeneral _2tlctarget
385			_aAny audience _2marctarget
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 _0(DLC)sh2009119254
650		0	_aSingle mothers _vFiction _0(DLC)sh2008111363
650		0	_aMotherhood _vFiction _0(DLC)sh2008107406
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2lcgft
655		7	_aDystopian fiction. _2lcgft
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aChan, Jessamine. _tSchool for good mothers _dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2022 _z9781982156145 _w(DLC) 2020046842
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