{"product_id":"school-for-good-mothers","title":"School for Good Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003eChan, Jessamine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Instant\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Read with Jenna\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eShow Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUntil Frida has a very bad day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe School for Good Mothers\u003c\/i\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":"Red Stick Reads","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42736011378921,"sku":"9781982156121","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9781982156121_476e1.jpg?v=1648320866","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/school-for-good-mothers","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}