The School for Good Mothers

The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
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h234 x 153mm - 336pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
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9781529151336
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Every mother has a bad day. . . Frida Liu is a struggling mother. She remembers taking Harriet from her cot and changing her nappy. She remembers giving her a morning bottle. They' d been up since four am. Frida just had to finish the article in front of her. But she' d left a file on her desk at work. What would happen if she retrieved it and came back in an hour? She was so sure it would be okay. Now, the state has decided that Frida is not fit to care for her daughter. That she must be re-educated. Can this mistake cost her everything? THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS is an explosive and thrilling novel about the pressures of perfectionism, parenthoodand privilege.
A taut and propulsive take on the cult of motherhood and the notion of what makes a good mother. Destined to be feminist classic - it kept me up at night -- Pandora Sykes A haunting tale of identity and motherhood - as devastating as it is imaginative -- Afua Hirsch Impossible to stop reading -- Chan captures the terrifying helplessness of a mother making bad choices and losing control in a fascinating dystopia of state surveillance. This brilliant rendering of a flawed and complicated heroine highlights many compelling issues of race and expectations of motherhood, with masterful storytelling of love and heartbreak and terror and suspense -- Frances Cha A timely and remarkable debut. -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES Incredibly clever, funny and pertinent to the world we' re living in at the moment -- Daisy Johnson, author of EVERYTHING UNDER
Jessamine Chan holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded a teaching fellowship. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House and Epoch. Her work has also received support from Bread Loaf, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Anderson Center, VCCA, and Ragdale. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband and daughter, she worked as a nonfiction reviews editor at Publishers Weekly.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529151336
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 409g
Pages: 336

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