{"product_id":"bxosbd-the-school-for-good-mothers-9781982156138","title":"The School For Good Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSelected as One of Barack Obama’s Summer 2022 Reading List Picks!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestseller and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eToday\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eshow Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance, in this “surreal” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), “remarkable” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), and “infuriatingly timely” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) debut novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrida 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil Frida has a very bad day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe state has its eye 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 judgement, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn “intense” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), “captivating” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eToday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe School for Good Mothers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289515405518,"sku":"9781982156138","price":34.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781982156138_a.png?v=1787123871","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/bxosbd-the-school-for-good-mothers-9781982156138","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}