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Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers

Frida Liu doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough. Until Frida has a very bad day. The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion. Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed.

Week of February 6, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of February 6th include THE MATCH, a gripping thriller from Harlan Coben in which a shocking genetic match exposes a family's darkest secret; Tina Brown's THE PALACE PAPERS, the inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years, only to confront new, 21st-century crises; THE HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand, an immensely satisfying page-turner about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel; Allison Pataki's THE MAGNIFICENT LIVES OF MARJORIE POST, a powerful story of one woman falling in love with her own voice and embracing her own power while shaping history in the process; and the paperback original CODE NAME SAPPHIRE by Pam Jenoff, a riveting tale of bravery and resistance about a woman who must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz.