Frida Liu had a terrible day. The next thing she knows, her daughter is taken away, and Frida is sent to a newly-established government program to prove that she is a good mother. In this thought-provoking debut, Jessamine Chan brilliantly delineates society's unattainable standards placed on moms by constructing a future dystopia that reflects the myth of upper-middle-class parenting, state-sanctioned violence against women, and family conflicts within an Asian American household. While the pacing is a bit slow for my liking, The School for Good Mothers is an impressive debut with a clever plot and an unlikely protagonist.