Master Class

By Christina Dalcher

Book Overview

From the critically acclaimed author of the international bestseller Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing new reality where the government controls more than the future of our children.

It's impossible to know what you would do...

The future of every child is determined by one standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and they attend a top tier school with a golden future ahead of them. Score low, and they are sent to a federally run boarding school with limited prospects for future employment. The purpose? Education costs are cut, teachers focus on the best students, and parents are happy.

When your child is taken from you.

Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's elite schools. When her nine-year old daughter fails her next monthly test, her Q score drops to a disastrously low level and she is immediately forced to leave her top school for a federal school hundreds of miles away. As a teacher, Elena knows intimately the dangers of failure in their tiered educational system, but as a mother who just lost her child, all Elena wants is to be near her daughter again. And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440000831
• ISBN13: 9780440000839
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"