The Gifted School: A Novel

"This tale of scandalous admissions doesn’t have Desperate Housewives or celebrities’ daughters on yachts, but it’s no less salacious for it. A school for gifted kids is opening in a wealthy Colorado suburb, and parents are tripping over themselves to secure spots. The children – an equestrian bookworm, a social butterfly of average intelligence (and above-average income), a trilingual, origami-folding immigrant boy and a brilliant but socially stunted child – become pawns in their parents’ wildly inappropriate admissions antics. It’s a page-turning meditation on what it means to be gifted – and how far parents will go to prove it."