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In the year 2036, the world’s best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education—and developmental drug regimen—available. Graduates go on to dominate in all the top colleges, Forbes 500 companies, and government positions.
But when several alumni are murdered, school officials decide to keep the police in the dark. They discreetly ask the school’s valedictorian to solve the mystery, but he discovers that the most obvious culprit, the school’s chemically-imbalanced delinquent—and his own nemesis—is being framed. Together, the two unlikely allies uncover a massive conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the Stansbury administration and the United States government.
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“Kalstein’s writing mirrors the world he creats: bold, textured, rife with dark secrets. Watching the ambitious boy genius and the angst-ridden thug piecing together the clues—about a conspiracy, about themselves—makes Prodigy a wonderful coming-of-age story hidden inside a riveting mystery.”
— Dustin Thomason, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Rule of Four -
“Kalstein’s action-packed comment on the price of ‘progress,’ the absurdity of hypercompetitive education, and the myth of meritocracy hurtles to a satisfying…conclusion.”
— Publishers Weekly -
“Narrator Paul Michael Garcia is at his best giving gravity and emotion to the voices of the valedictorian, the punk, the misfit, and the brainy beauty, who band together to solve the murders. Kalstein weaves biting dystopian discourse with teen romance to create likable characters and a surprising, moving epilogue.”
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“Engrossing…The book is so well imagined that one cares about the school’s fate from the start. And the characters are vivid as well, befitting what is, beneath its fast-paced surface, a thoughtful novel about boarding-school life.”
— Booklist
Prodigy Listener Reviews
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" An interesting premise, but the writing is clunky and the characters two dimensional, so in the end, it's a pretty weak book. The vision of the future is kind of interesting, but it seems like every time he wrote himself into a corner, he created a new sci-fi device to get himself out. "
— Marshaferz, 5/15/2010 -
" Futuristic with an unlikely hero in the drug enhanced high school student body. Interesting read. "
— Peggyl, 11/20/2009 -
" I really liked this. It had a very fast pace, and stayed interesting and suspenseful all the way through. "
— Jonathan, 3/27/2009 -
" The "action" scenes almost felt like a movie script, but the idea was somewhat interesting nonetheless. "
— David, 12/5/2008 -
" all my favorite books take time to talk about the characters' "round, firm d-cup breasts straining at the thin cashmere of their matching cardigans." <br/> <br/>seriously. "
— Emily, 5/24/2008 -
" I really hate feeling like I've wasted time on a book, and this one left me wanting about six hours of my life back. Prodigy is like the movie "Gattaca," but starring purebred high school students whose breasts are described just a few too many times. "
— Shayna, 5/7/2008 -
" Unlikable protagonists and cliched evildoers. Too bad because the premise of the perfect school sounded interesting. "
— kvon, 12/22/2007
About Dave Kalstein
Dave Kalstein became a film writer and director working out of Hollywood after getting kicked out of several prep schools. His first novel, Prodigy, is based on a short film he made in 2003.
About Richard Powers
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.