The school for good mothers : a novel

ISBN: 9781668000335 (paperback)
Physical Description: 324 pages ; 23 cm regular print
Publisher: New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 3 / 5.0

Summary: "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.