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Rumi Vasi is a decade, 2 calendar months, 13 days, 2 time, 42 minutes, and 6 moments old. She’s thought that the probability of her walking home from institution with the boy she likes, John Kemble, is 0.2142, a possibility significantly reduced by the lacy dress and dense woolen tights her father, and Indian émigré, pushes her to wear. Rumi is a gifted child, and her father, Mahesh, is convinced that strict self-discipline is the main element to nurturing her genius if the family has any trust of making its draw on its adoptive country.
Four years later, a teenage Rumi is at the center of any intense advertising campaign by her parents to make her the youngest scholar ever to wait Oxford University, an effort that requires an unrelenting regimen of research. Yet Rumi keeps growing up like any other normal teen: her head often drifts to strong distractions . . . from music to love.
Rumi’s parents want little or nothing other than to provide Rumi a fantastic life. As her father outlines a lot more regimented research schedules, her mom dreams about India and forcefully reminds Rumi of her root base. In the end, the intense prospects of a family group with everything to confirm will be a combustible element as a smart but naive gal is thrust in to the adult world before she's time to grow up.
In her stunningly eloquent debut book, Nikita Lalwani pits a mother or father’s desire against a child’s. Deftly pondering the complexities and outcomes that accompany the best motives, Gifted explores just how far one person will motivate another, and how much can be endured, in the name of love.
Advance compliment for Gifted
“A triumph . . . fluid, original, ingenious, glitteringly vivid, funny . . . All the conventional pieties and varieties of Indian immigrant identification and stress are so wittily preempted, yet there’s a sure grasp, at the serious primary of the book, of the profound reverberations of politics and background. I couldn’t carry it when it finished.”
–Tessa Hadley, author of The Professional Bedroom
“This is an outstanding piece of writing–rich, vivid, fluent, and well paced–with an excellent cast of well-developed, engaging heroes and a constantly astonishing story brand.”
–Gerard Woodward, author of A Curious Globe
