![]() The women give each other mugs with friendship quotes each year on the anniversary of that meeting, and they get together every Friday morning for a 4-mile run, "a ritual carved into the flinty stone of their lives…shared since they'd first started trimming up again after the births of their children." Beneath the surface, resentments are already simmering-one family is far wealthier than the others the widowed mom is a neurotic mess one of the couples didn't make it through elementary school and he's remarried to "a hot young au pair who was great with the twins a willing partner in mindblowing carnality." Then comes the announcement of a public magnet school for exceptional learners, with a standardized test as the first step in separating the wheat from the chaff. ![]() Four close friends, their husbands, their children, their housecleaners-and one application-only magnet school that will drive them all over the brink.Ī Boulder-esque town in the Front Range of the Rockies, Crystal, Colorado, is a progressive paradise where four entwined families are raising their children, though death, divorce, and drugs have taken their toll on the group since the moms met at baby swim class years back. ![]()
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