A few in that neighborhood that have been on my mind lately: The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan, and Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Looking forward to seeing what others say!
I think Rafik Schami's The Dark Side of Love stands up pretty well for its take, in some chapters (it's long) on how parental fear exhibits itself for good or bad, in this case in a Syria shifting from brutal clan war to even more brutal state authoritarianism + clan war.
The Curfew, by Jesse Ball. I can’t speak to how it reads as a parent because I’m not one, but it’s about a father and daughter in an increasingly dystopian authoritarian city; contains (among other things) prose poetry, magical realism, secret organizing, and puppets; and is absolutely beautiful.
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