num_pages: 560
description: Smart and juicy a compulsively readable novel about a group of friends and families that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the communityThis 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.
language: English
title: The Gifted School
publisher: Riverhead Books