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La Escuela de Las Buenas Madres / The School of Good Mothers - Paperback
La Escuela de Las Buenas Madres / The School of Good Mothers - Paperback
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by Jessamine Chan (Author)
RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW
Preseleccionada para la Medalla Carnegie de Excelencia del 2023.
Seleccionado como uno de los libros favoritos de la Lista de Lectura de Verano 2022 de Barack Obama.
Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
Selected as One of Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List Picks!
In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance, in this "surreal" (People), "remarkable" (Vogue), and "infuriatingly timely" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel. 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. An "intense" (Oprah Daily), "captivating" (Today) 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, The School for Good Mothers 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.
Author Biography
Jessamine Chan es licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Columbia. Sus relatos han aparecido en Tin House y Epoch. En 2017 recibió una beca de la Fundación Elizabeth George para escribir esta novela. También ha tenido apoyo del Breaf Loaf, la Fundación Wurlitzer, Jentel, el Centro Kimmel Harding Nelson, el Centro Anderson y Ragdale. Antes de mudarse a Filadelfia, donde vive con su esposo y su hija, trabajó como editora de no-ficción en Publishers Weekly.
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