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    "description": "An Instant New York Times Bestseller\n\nA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick\n\nIn this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.\n\nFrida Liu is struggling. She doesn\u2019t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents\u2019 sacrifices. She can\u2019t 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.\n\nUntil Frida has a very bad day.\n\nThe state has its eyes 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 judgment, 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\u2019s devotion.\n\nFaced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.\n\nA searing page-turner that is also a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of \u201cperfect\u201d 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.",
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