Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the community
This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege.
Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of one another's lives since their kids were born over a decade ago, the story reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the effect on the group's children, sibling relationships, marriages, and careers, as simmering resentments come to a boil and long-buried, explosive secrets surface and detonate. It's a humorous, keenly observed, timely take on ambitious parents, willful kids, and the pursuit of prestige, no matter the cost.
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<3 the cover. Book sounds interesting.
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ReplyDeleteThe premise draws me in as I know many parents who have forced their children into college programs they want them to pursue.
ReplyDeleteHuman nature, turmoil, love it! Thank you
ReplyDeleteThe cover attracts me to this book as my son was in a gifted school.
ReplyDeletethe blurb is really good
ReplyDeleteI'm a teacher, so I'm interested to see how the author used the gifted school as a backdrop!
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ReplyDeleteThe cover draws me to the book.
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