"Gifted" by Nikita Lalwani offers a thrilling story of ambitious aspirations and deep desire, as well as the loneliness that can accompany childhood. Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where mathematics can bring you recognition. Rumi Vasi is the city's "mathematical prodigy": her ability to solve numbers and Rubik's cubes protects her from the harsh challenges of the playground, providing a way to organize her world. However, after years of relentless teaching from her father, Rumi discovers that numbers begin to lose their innocence. India provides her with a romantic sense of belonging, and as she grows up, desire takes on a negative tint in the Vasi household, opening the subject of love to painful scrutiny.

Pages: 288, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm