03050cam a2200313 4500 547163780 TxAuBib 20220126120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982156145 1982156147 B093JHS53T Amazon 41dda0e2-f56c-4c11-9a4a-15f82182c9ba OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6241439 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chan, Jessamine. The School for Good Mothers [Libby] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3548kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>An Instant <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br /> <br /> <b>A Read with Jenna <i>Today</i> Show Book Club Pick</b><br /> <br /> <b>In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.</b><br /> Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.<br /> <br /> Until Frida has a very bad day.<br /> <br /> The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother's devotion.<br /> <br /> Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.<br /> <br /> A searing page-turner that is also a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of "perfect" upper-middle class parenting; the violence enacted upon women by both the state and, at times, one another; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love, <i>The School for Good Mothers</i> introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-26 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41dda0e2-f56c-4c11-9a4a-15f82182c9ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41dda0e2-f56c-4c11-9a4a-15f82182c9ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41dda0e2-f56c-4c11-9a4a-15f82182c9ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)