The Gifted School

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Call Number: Fiction / Holsinger, Bruce, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Holsinger, Bruce	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Holsinger, Bruce	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.	4-week checkout	On Shelf
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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Holsinger, Bruce W.	4-week checkout	On Shelf

""Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read."--Meg Wolitzer 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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Ok submitted by _desai_ on July 12, 2019, 11:08pm Seems a good one

Gifted submitted by Anthany on July 10, 2020, 8:55am The gifted school

The Gifted School submitted by beckleystover on August 5, 2020, 11:33am The writing for this book was beautiful. it has a few fun twists. i really enjoyed it.

Hilarious and wonderful submitted by margaretfrye on July 15, 2023, 7:38pm As a story, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite novel. But as a satire of upper middle class status anxiety— it’s delicious.