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Jessamine Chan's debut novel, The School for Good Mothers, is the deeply unsettling story of how Frida Liu's bad parenting day turns into a court-mandated year in an experimental rehabilitation program for bad mothers. But this program is...different. Total surveillance. Public self-criticism. And dolls, sentient AI beings, to detect a mother's "stress, fear, ingratitude, deception, boredom, ambivalence...how often she makes eye contact, the quality and authenticity of her emotions." Say it with me: I am a bad mother, but I am learning to be good. Again, please. AGAIN. [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes on Mar 3, 2022 - 6 comments

Charlie receives a golden ticket to a factory, his sweet tooth wants going into the lushing candy, it turns out there's an adventure in everything. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 20, 2018 - 16 comments

Have you ever just had a really, really crappy day, and wished that you could step into the version of the day where everything went OK? Would it make a difference if there was a chance that you might get your organs stolen? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 8, 2017 - 35 comments