come_le_spice 's review for:

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
4.0

The School for Good Mothers is a beautiful book, but overall pretty difficult to read and absorb.
You need to approach it by knowing in advance how brutally honest it would be on double standards, patriarchal society, motherhood, depression, and suicide.
Thus, I'd highly suggest also reading something lighter while you have this book on your shelf.
It's almost impossible to go through the book without feeling your guts in your throat, but it deserves for you to get to the end of it because it gets better through the pages, up to a stunning finale.