Genre: Contemporary Adult Fiction
Length: 464 pages
Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 53 minutes
First Published: 2019
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Publisher’s Description
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.
About Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger is the author of three novels: The Gifted School, A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire. He teaches English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit the author’s website →
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