Books like The School for Good Mothers
Frida Liu, a divorced mother in Philadelphia, leaves her toddler alone at home for two hours on one bad day, and the state sends her for a year to a re-education camp for mothers, to be trained with robot children.
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The Dream Hotel
Coming home from a conference, Sara Hussein, a mother of twins, is detained at Los Angeles airport because an algorithm reading her dreams has judged that she is likely to commit a crime, and she is sent to a retention centre for observation.
Our Missing Hearts
Bird Gardner, twelve, lives in a quiet America where laws against un-American behaviour have made Asian Americans suspects, and three years after his mother, a Chinese-American poet, left without a word, a letter from her arrives.
Prophet Song
Ireland passes an emergency law that strips citizens of their rights overnight, and one family watches democracy die in real time.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
A virus released by terrorists means every pregnant woman in the world now dies, and Jessie Lamb, sixteen, writes her account from the room where her father has locked her up to stop what she has decided to do.
Super Sad True Love Story
In a near-future New York where everyone rates each other and books are dying, an ageing schlub falls for a young Korean-American woman.
The Children of Men
In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.
A Song for a New Day
After attacks and a pandemic have banned public gatherings, Luce, who played the last big concert, plays illegal shows, while Rosemary, who has never seen live music, is hired to find bands for a company that streams them.
The Circle
Mae Holland lands a job at the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, on a dazzling California campus, and is swept up in its drive to make everything, her own life included, transparent.
Faces in the Water
Istina Mavet, a young woman committed to mental hospitals in New Zealand, records the wards, the treatments and the women around her.
The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
The Light Pirate
Wanda is born during a hurricane in a small Florida town, and as she grows up the water keeps rising and the state, and her family, start to come apart.