01673cam a2200301 i 4500 552978534 TxAuBib 20220404120000.0 201202s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020046841 9781982156121 hbk. 1982156120 hbk. TxAuBib rda Chan, Jessamine. School for good mothers. The School for Good Mothers : A Novel / Jessamine Chan. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. 324 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20220404. Chinese American women Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Motherhood Fiction. Dystopian fiction. Science fiction.