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The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
This book was powerful. The parallels this novel has to our current expectations of women as mothers and human beings is horrifying and true. Frida is just supposed to accept all the shitty things her life dealt her and have no emotional response. The fact that society expects women to do everything right as a mother and criticize them to death about their actions is present in this novel and in the world today. "Don't do this, feed them this, give them affection, but don't make them soft" etc. sums up what we currently see online and what everyone else expects from Frida. This novel is a beautiful narrative on the hyper fixation society has on women being perfect and that their only job is to be the perfect mother. It also echos the not so distant dystopian idea of the government focusing solely on a woman's right to just exist.