The Gifted School: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- January Lavoy
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-07-02
Summary:
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Among NPR’s ‘Beloved Books of 2019’!
‘Smart and addictive… The Gifted College is the juiciest book I’ve read in age range… a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, competition and class.’–J. Courtney Sullivan in The New York Times
‘The summer browse that predicted the college-admissions scandal.’ -The Wall structure Street Journal
Wise and juicy, a compulsively readable book in regards to a previously happy group of close friends and parents that is approximately The Gifted College: A Novel 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.
Occur the fictional city of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the episode within a community of close friends and parents nearly as good motives and great ambitions collide inside 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 blessed over ten years ago, the story reveals not merely the lengths which some adults are prepared to go to get ahead, however 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 area and detonate. It’s a funny, keenly observed, well-timed undertake ambitious parents, willful children, and the pursuit of prestige, regardless of the cost.
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