The Gifted School by Bruce HolsingerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I started reading this book a while ago and couldn’t get past the first chapter. I came back to it recently and once I got past the first chapter, I couldn’t stop reading! There are a lot of characters in this story so I got a little confused at times. I ended up making a list of characters to keep everyone and their relations straight while I continued throughout the book. Holsinger presents each chapter in a different character’s point of view. We hear the story from different angles, whether from a parent or a child, which adds an important element to the story. It would’ve been too 1 dimensional if we didn’t hear this story from the perspective of the children. Ultimately, this story makes the reader question the merits of a “gifted” school or truly even what constitutes as “gifted”. Similar to “Big Little Lies”, these parents tend to be self-involved and focused on how everyone else perceives their family rather than what’s best for their particular child. Holsinger creates a page-turner of a drama and I couldn’t wait to read what happened next. Recommended.
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