Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl food & travel as individuals and as a

as individuals and as a society - and its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview

especially as they rise to major new roles elsewhere

silence his only protection

eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl food & travel as individuals and as aThis mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming of age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and