![]() ![]() Other point-of-view characters include Beck, the soccer dad ex-husband of Azra, and Ch’ayña, an immigrant grandmother who cleans houses. That’s Rose, an ambitious neurologist who’s exasperated with her husband, Gareth, an underachieving novelist. But before long, they’re caught up in the school’s competitive admissions process, each trying to find a hook for her kid.Īlthough the novel’s point of view shifts with each chapter, Holsinger has made an interesting and smart decision to offer the perspective of only one of the four moms. ![]() When they learn that a charter school for gifted middle and high schoolers will open in Crystal (a fictionalized Boulder), they respond with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Together, they’ve weathered death, divorce, addiction and travel-team sports. ![]() The novel’s four moms-Rose, Azra, Samantha and Lauren-have been best friends for a decade. The Gifted School is a contemporary story about high-stakes parenting, set in an affluent Colorado suburb. ![]() With his new novel, Holsinger has moved forward seven centuries and across an ocean. Bruce Holsinger is an English professor at the University of Virginia, a medievalist whose first two novels were set in 14th-century London. ![]()
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