17 Books to Pick Up This Winter
Doubting daughters, enterprising émigrés, lost lovers.
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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
By Ann Hulbert
400 pages;
Knopf
Part ode to young genius, part indictment of helicopter parenting, Hulbert's crisply written account of überachieving kids probes our own complicated obsessions with talent and the need to stand out.
— Hamilton Cain
Published 01/14/2018