The School for Good Mothers

Autor*innen

• Jessamine Chan

Parameter

• 336 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Familie
• Gegenwartsliteratur
• Mutterschaft & Elternschaft
• Science-Fiction

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"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"--

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Einband: Hardcover