Bibliokitty

The School for Good Mothers is Jessamine Chan’s debut novel and was just released this year. The timing of this novel is impeccable with anti-abortion rhetoric in the US really ramping up, the recent passing of restrictive abortion laws in the US (with more to come), and the US Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. The School for Good Mothers examines the lack of women’s rights, how the State controls women and how the concept of “motherhood” is weaponized against women. It examines how society judges mothers, especially mothers who are poor and who are not white. It is an incredibly imaginative novel, but it is bogged down by a disappointing protagonist and a depressing ending.

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Bewilderment is a novel that I think everyone should read, but I know they will not. For some people, it may seem like a strange book, but it tackles important subject matters, such as raising a child on the autism spectrum, raising a sensitive child who is very much aware of the problems with our world, climate change, mass extinction of animals, the erosion of democracy, and our bewilderment in the face of all this. It would seem like Richard Powers is prophesizing our future in Bewilderment, if it were not for the fact that what he writes about is very much happening right now.

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If you have read and liked Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, then you may like Kathy Wang’s Family Trust. I have read Crazy Rich Asians and I thought it was just okay. I really wanted to like Family Trust because it sounds like an interesting novel, but I thought it was also just okay (I guess I should not be surprised). My biggest problem with Family Trust is that nearly every single character, except maybe one, is not likeable and therefore I did not enjoy reading about them (the quote on the cover is a lie; this book was not a joy to read from start to finish).

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