Marie
14 feb. 2022
Intriguing plot, but repetitive and a little boring execution. Well written though.
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022! 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.
© 2022 Simon & Schuster Audio (Lydbok): 9781797135458
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 4. januar 2022
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022! 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.
© 2022 Simon & Schuster Audio (Lydbok): 9781797135458
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 4. januar 2022
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Marie
14 feb. 2022
Intriguing plot, but repetitive and a little boring execution. Well written though.
Miss
6 dec. 2022
A dystopian novel for everyone who claims that privacy is not a big deal because 'they have nothing to hide'.
Rosa
16 jan. 2023
Meget langtrukken.
Claudia
31 aug. 2022
Una lettura angosciante che fa riflettere. Non adatta a tutti, soprattutto a chi è madre o particolarmente sensibile. È stata un'esperienza unica, mi sono sentita oppressa, e divisa tra la tentazione di giudicare le ''cattive madri" e il senso di colpa per la loro condizione a dir poco inumana. Alla fine ero molto scossa.
Celina
28 jan. 2022
Sad sad sad .
Val
8 feb. 2022
Some parts were heartbreaking and had all the elements of what could've been a great book. Sadly, the storyline fell flat right around the middle and dragged until the end.
Generell vurdering basert på 106 anmeldelser
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Trist
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Viser 6 av 106
Marie
14 feb. 2022
Intriguing plot, but repetitive and a little boring execution. Well written though.
Miss
6 dec. 2022
A dystopian novel for everyone who claims that privacy is not a big deal because 'they have nothing to hide'.
Rosa
16 jan. 2023
Meget langtrukken.
Claudia
31 aug. 2022
Una lettura angosciante che fa riflettere. Non adatta a tutti, soprattutto a chi è madre o particolarmente sensibile. È stata un'esperienza unica, mi sono sentita oppressa, e divisa tra la tentazione di giudicare le ''cattive madri" e il senso di colpa per la loro condizione a dir poco inumana. Alla fine ero molto scossa.
Celina
28 jan. 2022
Sad sad sad .
Val
8 feb. 2022
Some parts were heartbreaking and had all the elements of what could've been a great book. Sadly, the storyline fell flat right around the middle and dragged until the end.
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