Master Class by Christina Dalcher
Thanks to Dache J. Rogers of Berkley/ Penguin Random House, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Master Class’ by Christina Dalcher.
Description Master Class by Christina Dalcher
It’s impossible to know what you will do…
Every child’s potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and attend a top tier school with a golden future. Score too low, and it’s off to a federal boarding school with limited prospects afterwards. The purpose? An improved society where education costs drop, teachers focus on the more promising 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 bombs a monthly test and her Q score drops to a disastrously low level, she is immediately forced to leave her top school for a federal institution hundreds of miles away. As a teacher, Elena thought she understood the tiered educational system, but as a mother whose child is now gone, Elena’s perspective is changed forever. She just wants her daughter back.
And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen.
Praise Master Class by Christina Dalcher
“The book’s examination of the way people will accept more and more small social changes until the system becomes something unrecognizable and horrific feels timely and urgent…top notch and keeps the reader guessing. An engaging parable of dangerous social change.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Dalcher combines the pace and tension of a standout thriller with thought-provoking projections of the possible end result of ranking children based on test scores. Admirers of The Handmaid’s Tale will be appropriately unsettled.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Dalcher’s novel reads like an expanded episode of Black Mirror; it is terrifying, haunting, and cautionary.”—Booklist
About Christina Dalcher
(c) Laurens Arenas
Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. She specializes in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects and has taught at several universities.
Her short stories and flash fiction appear in more than one hundred journals worldwide. Recognition includes first place for the Bath Flash Award, nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and multiple other awards. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with her husband.
Website: https://christinadalcher.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CVDalcher
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Vox was a great read, we’re really looking forward to Master Class. Thanks!
This sounds very timely. Thanks for the giveaway!
A fascinating and current plotline. Thanks.
This should be a great book for the changes going on around us all over the world. Thanks for this chance
This is in the top 5 titles I want to read. Vox by her I’ve recommended to so many readers.
Sound interesting
I really wonder, if the standardized tests, that we wrote, were actually used for anything. I only know of one Math test, which was used to enter the brightest math students in a provincial test.