The school of good mothers

a novel

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR.U : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Science Fiction-Romane und Utopische Romane

Verfasser:
Chan, Jessamine

Verfasser Angabe:
Jessamine Chan

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Mutterschaft
• Dystopie
• Kleinkind
• Alleinerziehende Mutter
• Gesellschaft
• Zukunft
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Überwachung
• Gefangenschaft

Verlag:
Simon a. Schuster

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2022

Umfang:
324 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-9821998-9-0

Interessenskreise:
American Literature
American Shelves

Inhalt:
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.
Until Frida has a very bad day.
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.
Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.