List of gifted schools2/9/2024 ![]() I recommend it to everyone.the envious, the envied, the happy, the sad. I almost feel in my bones this will be picked up as a film or a TV series. So I consider this a great read, one of the best of the year. I think if it changes one person's actions, even just one, that will have been a great thing. I hope, just one person may read this and realize that all the surface is all bullshit. I could find good in every character in the book in one form or another. I have seen ordinary sane people make insane choices while in its grip. So you do not have to be a parent to relate.Įnvy is a lethal thing that can eat away at you. I think ALL of us have been, at one point or another, on both sides. I have coveted things I lacked, that were not mine to covet. Though I myself do not have kids, I have been envious before. I often wondered, while reading it, about these people who, in my eyes, had it all and let petty envy get in the way.īut then I started thinking. ![]() This book is like watching a train wreck but it also has much to say and is less light and way more human then I ever expected. But people like Rose.who was my least favorite character.I still struggle to understand. I think the internet has sort of contributed, where social media abounds and people can sing the praises of their children, their friends and spouses, from behind a computer screen. It was tough keeping everyone straight.Īnd it is still hard for me to believe so much emphasis is put on this stuff. I wish it had been just a few less narrators. ![]() If I have one gripe it is that there are so many characters. The Gifted School is written in a superb way as your feelings keep shifting. But.with the Varsity Blues scandal not to mention the every day news cycle of parents behaving badly and doing crazy things, I do believe it now. I mean.if this book had come out 5 or 10 years ago, I'd most likely not have liked it as much because I wouldn't have believed it could happen. Some of these parents were beyond anything I could comprehend. Sadly for some of the children in this book, they did not have the same experience. Luckily I was blessed with parents who would not have given a crap about this "gifted school". It can be tough.really truly tough.when you are young not to be affected by all the superficial crap. So my heart went out to all the kids.the gifted, the not so gifted. One was my wonderful mom who went to bat for me. I struggled in school and had a real concentration problem. It was tough as he (my sibling) is absolutely brilliant. I do think people who DO have kids will have a better grasp of how such things could happen.įor me, I interestingly enough related to the CHILDREN. I mention this because I wondered if I'd be able to relate to the subject matter. It s much deeper then I expected it to be frankly and though it is long, the pages sort of fly. What a wild ride! I enjoyed The Gifted School. This book makes the Varsity Blues scandal look almost G rated. “Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.” It's a humorous, keenly observed, timely take on ambitious parents, willful kids, and the pursuit of prestige, no matter the cost. 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. 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. 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. Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a group of friends and families that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the community
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