Ebook {Epub PDF} The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

 · The Gifted School is a smart, knowing, wickedly entertaining novel that at once provokes, skewers, and forgives, loves and understands its keenly observed characters. A riveting tale of parenting and privilege, custom-made for our culture. 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 /5(K).  · 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 Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.

"Bruce Holsinger's The Gifted School is a propulsive story about class and parental one-upmanship." - Real Simple "[A] timely and relevant read for the summer." www.doorway.ru "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. by Bruce Holsinger. Discussion Questions: 1. What is your opinion of the families at the center of The Gifted School? Do you have different opinions about the various sets of parents: Rose and Gareth, Samantha and Kevin, Beck and Azra, Ch'ayna and Silea, and Lauren? If so, with whom do you sympathize most? Who do you relate to? THE GIFTED SCHOOL By Bruce Holsinger. One morning two years back, a heated argument broke out in my local Brooklyn moms Facebook group about something called "G and T." Certain parents were.

Bruce Holsinger's new social comedy The Gifted School, which revolves around a seventh-grade variation on this drama, offers only the latter two. Its characters' desperate efforts to get their. The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger review – astute and funny Competition for places at an elite Colorado academy brings out the worst in pushy parents An elite school is at the toxic heart of. The Gifted School is a smart, knowing, wickedly entertaining novel that at once provokes, skewers, and forgives, loves and understands its keenly observed characters. A riveting tale of parenting and privilege, custom-made for our culture.