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The gifted school : a novel (2019 original; edició 2019)

de Bruce W. Holsinger

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"Wise and addictive... The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I've read in ages... a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class." ??J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and Strangers, in The New York Times
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, from the author of The Displacements

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 co
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Títol:The gifted school : a novel
Autors:Bruce W. Holsinger
Informació:New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
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The Gifted School de Bruce Holsinger (2019)

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This one is good if you are in the mood for the family drama of some selfish rich suburbanites.

In Crystal, Colorado (very obviously meant to be Boulder) there’s going to be a new, free, super exclusive school for “exceptional learners” and the admission process turns the parents of all the potentially eligible kids into desperate people.

Focused primarily on four women who became friends when their babies took a swim class together. We learn about their kids, their troubled marriages, their careers and sometimes even the inner thoughts of an ex-husband who is riddled in debt, overly invested in U10 soccer and about to find himself with another ex-wife. There’s also one other family, a poor one, who happens to be the family who cleans the rich folks house (I wanted a lot more of that kid!) most of the women are REALLY unlikable, the men portrayed unflatteringly, but some (not all) of the kids are OK. A few of the kids do things that didn’t really add up for me but made for some good drama.

I don’t have kids but based on people I know in real life this really doesn’t seem all that far fetched to me. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
The magnet school game is taken to a new level, it's like all those getting into "private preschool" in NYC books elevated and better. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
I wavered a bit on this 5-star review, but in the end I couldn’t settle on any definitive factor to justify removing a whole star. This is the story of a tight little group of privileged friends whose lives begin to unravel when a gifted school is announced in their tidy, tony little city. It is told in several voices, alternating between children and adults. It is interesting because child and adult perspectives on events are necessarily different, and the author captures those perspectives with authenticity and genuineness. I guess there are a few quirks—the two Emmas, each known by their surnames’ initials—it is rare for two main characters in a novel to share a name, and I was probably a third of the way into the book before I got them straight. Each of the characters (or family groupings) have their own crises brewing, and the last half of the novel builds slowly to a big event that is the catalyst for those crises to blow up, though the fallout ends up working out somewhat unexpectedly. One character whose life is a wreck almost from the start of the narrative actually wins some redemption, while another, who seems capable of withstanding anything, melts down spectacularly. It feels like a commentary on the unpredictability of human nature, and an insightful one at that. I did take a few steps down the “gifted” path myself, with my daughter, and some of this definitely rings true. It is a smooth and believable read. ( )
  karenchase | Jun 14, 2023 |
An exploration of how the residents of a Colorado school district deal with the opening of a new, highly selective magnet school. Fascinating character study. The friendships of a group of women plays a major role, and upon completion of the book I was surprised to realize this was written by a man. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
It kind of felt like it was trying to be a mix of Big Little Lies and Beartown, but it just wasn't that good. I don't know why anyone thought it was necessary to include every boring email and random sets of instructions whenever they were brought up, and there was SO much potential to make fun of parents here but it all just turned into incredibly unlikable people doing bad things. Also why did everyone just act like the whole Beck Tessa incident was fine?? Like it doesn't matter if he touched her, that's disgusting and shouldn't have been tolerated? ( )
  ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |
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"Wise and addictive... The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I've read in ages... a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class." ??J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and Strangers, in The New York Times
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, from the author of The Displacements

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 co

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