{"product_id":"the-gifted-school","title":"The Gifted School","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wise and addictive... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gifted School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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 in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The summer read that predicted the college-admissions scandal.\" -\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmart 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, \u003ci\u003eThe Gifted School\u003c\/i\u003e 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 cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48405774336255,"sku":"*R0003782*","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/2398443482375.jpg?v=1776443550","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-gifted-school","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}