The Resource The school for good mothers : a novel, Jessamine Chan
The school for good mothers : a novel, Jessamine Chan
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Resource Information
The item The school for good mothers : a novel, Jessamine Chan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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- Summary
- "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" --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781982156121
- Label
- The school for good mothers : a novel
- Title
- The school for good mothers
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jessamine Chan
- Subject
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- trueSocial control
- trueAuthoritarianism
- trueChild protective services
- trueChinese American women
- Chinese American women -- Fiction
- trueDivorced women
- Dystopian fiction
- trueJudgment
- trueMisogyny
- trueMotherhood
- Motherhood -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- trueParenting
- truePerfection
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePolitical surveillance
- trueSchools
- Science fiction
- Single mothers -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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" --Provided by publisher
- Award
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- LibraryReads Favorites, 2022.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2022.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 11036750
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chan, Jessamine
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chinese American women
- Single mothers
- Motherhood
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The school for good mothers : a novel, Jessamine Chan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781982156121
- Lccn
- 2020046841
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1226073462
- (OCoLC)1226073462
- 3544156
- Label
- The school for good mothers : a novel, Jessamine Chan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781982156121
- Lccn
- 2020046841
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1226073462
- (OCoLC)1226073462
- 3544156
Subject
- trueSocial control
- trueAuthoritarianism
- trueChild protective services
- trueChinese American women
- Chinese American women -- Fiction
- trueDivorced women
- Dystopian fiction
- trueJudgment
- trueMisogyny
- trueMotherhood
- Motherhood -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- trueParenting
- truePerfection
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePolitical surveillance
- trueSchools
- Science fiction
- Single mothers -- Fiction
Genre
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- trueOwn Voices Science Fiction
- trueDiverse Literary Fiction
- trueLoan Stars Favourites: 2022
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2022
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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