03022cam a2200289 4500 590172400 TxAuBib 20220724120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781797135458 1797135457 5fe99ea8-3d90-48b5-b5fa-e694cdf98cd6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6384175 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chan, Jessamine. The School for Good Mothers [Libby] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 328MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 328MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>In this <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and <i>Today</i> show 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" (<i>People</i>), "remarkable" (<i>Vogue</i>), and "infuriatingly timely" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) debut novel.</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 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.<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 /> An "intense" (<i>Oprah Daily</i>), "captivating" (<i>Today</i>) 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: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. Ho, Catherine. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5fe99ea8-3d90-48b5-b5fa-e694cdf98cd6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5fe99ea8-3d90-48b5-b5fa-e694cdf98cd6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)