Discusses being a gifted individual, how to handle academic anxiety, suggestions on what to do and how to cope with the gifted talents.

Discusses testicular cancer, providing information on what it is, diagnosis and treatment of the ailment, and how it affects one's life.

Explains the causes and symptoms of loneliness and depression and how to deal with loneliness.

Discusses stuttering, providing information on what it is, diagnosis and treatment of the ailment, and how it can affect one's life.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Wise and addictive... The Gifted School 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, author of Friends and Strangers, in The New York Times Smart 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, from the author of The Displacements 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. 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. 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.

Discusses the grief process, ways to cope with grief, and the emotions of dealing with a friend's death.

Discusses what it takes to be a friend, why friendships end, how to save a friendship, and how to move on and make new friends when an old relationship ends.