Along the way she will learn to act like a teenager, to love unexpectedly, and to think for herself. In one life-changing year, Blue will unveil a mystery bigger than her own life. For the first time in her life, Blue finds herself drawn out of the insular family world she and her father have created, and into the lives of these maverick and beautiful peers.īut after a suspicious death at Hannah’s house, this new world raises some disturbing questions, and Blue’s life begins to come “unstitched like a snagged sweater.” Who is Hannah Schneider and why is she so interested in Blue? Does Blue’s narcissistic father really love constant travel, or is he running away from more than the ghost of her mother? What really happened the day her mother died? Who can Blue really trust? A film studies teacher, Hannah is alluring and unconventional, “the lone bombshell slinking into a Norman Rockwell,” who treats the students as friends and equals. Gallway seniors, and she invites dutiful and shy Blue to join them.
Hannah is the gorgeous, mysterious mentor to a select group of St. Gallway, the private school Blue enters for her senior year. Instead, she has been raised on her father’s voice and on the literature and political history that he thrives on.Įnter Hannah Schneider and the Bluebloods, an enigmatic clique at St. While Blue’s intellectual gifts have been nurtured by her devoted father, she has never had a real home or friends. After her mother’s death in a car accident when Blue is six, they hit the road together, traveling between her father’s ever-changing teaching positions in obscure college towns. In vivid prose sprinkled with literary and cultural references, Pessl weaves a complicated tale of self-awakening in a postmodern world.īlue van Meer is the precocious only daughter of a dashing and scholarly father. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, the dazzling debut of Marisha Pessl, is a buoyant combination of comedy, tragedy, mystery, and romance, a story of disturbing secrets and the eccentric high school student who uncovers them.
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