Book Stew

Author Jessamine Chan Discusses Her Jenna Bush Hager Book Club Pick!


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Meet Jessamine Chan, author of the “Read With Jenna” Today Show Book Club Pick The School for Good Mothers, now available now in bookstores! For fans of “The Handmaid's Tale,” “Never Let Me Go,” and Octavia Butler comes a taut and explosive debut novel where one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program. With the custody of her child hanging in the balance, she's determined to prove herself a good mother–but just how far will this school go to test her?... “The School for Good Mothers picks up the mantle of writers like Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro, with their skin-crawling themes of surveillance, control, and technology; but it also stands on its own as a remarkable, propulsive novel. At a moment when state control over women's bodies (and autonomy) feels ever more chilling, the book feels horrifyingly unbelievable and eerily prescient all at once.” —VOGUE
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