A review by jax00
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

challenging dark emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

Just felt like it was "my husband cheated so feel bad when I left my daughter home". I did think it was supposed to show the ridiculousness of how childcare expectations and technology are headed (similar to Fahrenheit 451 and book bans), but I couldn't get invested into the characters enough to feel bad. So, the extremes kinda made sense in some cases. Their was also a claim lesbians are bad mothers because they are selfish and compared part of the experience to the "Nazis when the Jews were being harmed".
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