The School for Good Mothers

This New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick is about a young mother who, due to a moment of poor judgment, finds herself in a government reform program where her child's custody is up for grabs. People has called the book "surreal," Vogue has called it "remarkable," and The New York Times Book Review has called it "infuriatingly timely."

Frida Liu is having trouble. She doesn't have a profession that matches the hardships her Chinese immigrant parents endured. She can't get her husband Gust to give up his younger mistress who is preoccupied with her well-being. Frida never achieves the perfection that was required of her until she meets their cherubic daughter, Harriet. Even if Harriet is all she has, she is sufficient.

until Frida has a very awful day.

Mothers like Frida are on the state's radar. The parents who allow their kids be hurt on the playground, who check their phones, and who let their kids go home alone. A number of government authorities will now decide if Frida is a suitable candidate for an organization like to Big Brother that assesses the degree of a mother's love due to a single moment of bad judgment.

Given the chance to lose Harriet, Frida has to demonstrate that a terrible mother is capable of redemption. that she is capable of becoming excellent.

The School for Good Mothers presents Frida, an everywoman for all time, as a transgressive novel of ideas about the dangers of "perfect" upper-middle class parenting, the violence committed against women by the state and, occasionally, by one another, the systems that separate families, and the boundlessness of love. Frida is described as "intense" (Oprah Daily), "captivating" (Today), and a page-turner. Chan has crafted a contemporary literary masterpiece that uses dark humor to examine the pleasures and sorrows of the strongest bonds that link us.