The school for good mothers : a novel / Jessamine Chan.
"Set in near-future America, [this novel] 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 [the] 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982156121
- Physical Description: 324 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
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Subject: | Chinese American women > Fiction. Single mothers > Fiction. Motherhood > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. Dystopian fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library.
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Grand Forks | FIC CHA (Text) | 35142002740586 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |