Story by <\/b>Yaasmeen Piper of Spotlight PA<\/b><\/p>\n
Spotlight PA<\/a>\u00a0is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania.\u00a0Sign up for our free newsletters<\/a>.<\/p>\n Frida Liu\u2019s life is not what she expected. The protagonist in Jessamine Chan\u2019s bestselling novel,\u00a0The School for Good Mothers, is struggling in her career and marriage. Her only solace is her daughter. But when the government takes her, Frida must prove through a series of trials that she is fit to be a mother.<\/p>\n As part of Spotlight PA\u2019s new book club pilot, Booklight PA, we\u2019re reading Chan\u2019s debut novel and discussing it with readers across the state on Discord. (Join now<\/b><\/a>!<\/b>) Then, on Sept. 25 from 6 to 7 p.m., Chan will join us via Zoom to answer your questions on her Philly-based novel.<\/p>\n The School for Good Mothers\u00a0made the New York Times Best Seller list, was chosen as a \u201cToday\u201d show book club pick, and was longlisted for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the Carnegie Medal.<\/p>\n This event is in partnership with A Novel Idea, a community-minded bookstore and event space based in East Passyunk, Philadelphia, run by Alexander Schneider and Christina Rosso-Schneider. Read more about A Novel Idea and\u00a0purchase your books here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n Register and submit your questions for Chan\u00a0here<\/b><\/a>. And\u00a0join our Discord group chat<\/b><\/a>\u00a0to discuss the book as you go.<\/p>\n UPCOMING BOOKLIGHT PA EVENTS:<\/b><\/p>\n Oct. 23<\/b>:\u00a0Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman<\/p>\n Nov. 18<\/b>:\u00a0If Sons, Then Heirs,\u00a0Lorene Cary<\/p>\n BEFORE YOU GO\u2026<\/b>\u00a0If you learned something from this article, pay it forward and contribute to Spotlight PA at\u00a0spotlightpa.org\/donate<\/a>. Spotlight PA is funded by\u00a0foundations and readers like you<\/a>\u00a0who are committed to accountability journalism that gets results.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story by Yaasmeen Piper of Spotlight PA Spotlight PA\u00a0is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-172048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115084536466273504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}