The Gifted School: A Novel Audiobook
The Gifted School: A Novel Audiobook
- January Lavoy
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-07-02
- 13 h 53 min
Summary:
INSTANT Country wide BESTSELLER
One of NPR’s ‘Favorite Books of 2019’!
‘Wise and addictive… The Gifted College may be the juiciest book I’ve read in age range… a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and course.’–J. Courtney Sullivan in The New York Times
‘The summer go through that predicted the college-admissions scandal.’ -The Wall structure Street Journal
Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable book about a previously happy group of close friends and parents that’s approximately The Gifted School: A Novel nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted kids 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 city of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted College is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the dilemma within a community of close friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lays. 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 storyplot reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the influence on the group’s kids, sibling relationships, relationships, 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 children, as well as the quest for prestige, regardless of the cost.