Laguna Beach Books is hosting an Author Event featuring Bruce Holsinger. Bruce will be discussing and signing copies of his book, The Gifted School. Join us at Laguna Beach Books for an engaging evening of literary discussion! There is no charge for this event. Please RSVP online.

Bruce Holsinger is a fiction writer and scholar of medieval literature who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. His first two novels, A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire, are set in and around medieval London, where the poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower spent much of their lives. His third novel, The Gifted School, was published in summer 2019. He is also the author or editor of six nonfiction books on medieval literature and culture, and he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Gifted School is a 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.