· the school ’s metrics for success are clinical and data-reliant, misguided attempts at pinpointing the mechanics of maternal love. After one parenting mistake, frida loses custody of her daughter and is sent to a new program being launched by child protective services (cps): The book is, thus, a weeping testimony, a haunting song, and a piercing rebuke of both the misogynist social order and the traps it lays for women, girls, and femmes. Frida liu, a young mother of a daughter, faces a government program that tests her parenting skills and threatens to take away her child. This book explores the themes of perfection, control, and love in a dark and satirical society. The novel concerns a woman, frida, who is sentenced to a period at an experimental facility intended to rehabilitate mothers accused of even minor parenting infractions. · the school for good mothers by jessamine chan is the author’s debut novel, a book about motherhood set in a slightly dystopian reality. A school for “bad mothers ” where. · the school for good mothers is not so much a warning for some possible dystopian nightmare as much as it is an alarm announcing that the nightmare is here. It offers a transgressive exploration of motherhood, resilience, guilt, and the force of love. Filled with dark wit and emotional urgency, the school for good mothers is an intense, captivating novel that scrutinizes upper-middle-class parenting, systemic surveillance of women, and the violence exacted by both the state and one another. In the school for good mothers , frida is recently separated from her husband and has joint custody of their. I love a good dystopian novel, and the premise was intriguing to me. The novel explores the american institution of motherhood and the impossibility of being a “ good ” mother. Frida’s class works through units on “motherese” (“the delightful high-pitched patter that goes on all day between mother and child”), appropriate types and time lengths of hugs, getting the dolls to eat enough vegetables or fall asleep in a reasonable.
