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Book SynopsisMarisha Pessl''s Special Topics in Calamity Physics is an unforgettable debut novel that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock: a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit.
''I wrote this account one year after I''d found Hannah Dead.
I thought I''d managed to erase all traces of that night within myself.
But I was wrong.
Every night when I tried to sleep, I''d close my eyes and see her again, exactly as I found her, hanging from a pine tree by an orange electrical cord, her neck twisted like a tulip stem, her eyes seeing nothing.
Or else that was the problem. They''d seen everything.''
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, The Western Canon
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Beneath the foam of this exuberant debut is a dark, strong drink -- Jonathan Franzen, author of * The Corrections *
