And while she finally finds a place to belong, she finds herself entangled in the odd, complicated and slightly terrifying world of a teacher and the teacher’s favorite students. And during her senior year, she finds herself at the St. Blue van Meer is the protagonist, who has spent her life traveling from city to city with her professor father, who was constantly guest lecturing at some rural university or another. I’ve been on a serious roll with reading books I love, probably because I did a ton of research on what to read so I could stop reading crap and start reading books I’m obsessed with, rather than lukewarm towards.Īnyway, Maria Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics goes on the gush list. “Beneath the foam of this exuberant debut is a dark, strong drink.I’m going to be gushing a lot in some of my upcoming posts. Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry It reminded me of my lost, bad-girl days. “ Special Topics in Calamity Physics made me stay up all night reading in the morning it seemed like one of those parties where everyone is too cool for you but you desperately want to know them anyway. “A real novel, one of substance and breadth, with an arresting story and that rarest of delights, a great ending.”
“There is a voice here to like, part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield, part Fran Leibowitz, and part Nora Ephron.” Her enthusiasm for language is a delight.”
vivid, erupting in a freefall of wordplay, wisecracks, encyclopedia tidbits, and a barrage of cultural references. “Extravagant, witty and dark, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a sprawling campus novel, an intricate murder mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a sly satire of intellectualism and academia. An escapist extravaganza packed with literary and pop culture allusions, mischievous characterizations, erotic intrigue, murders, and unstoppable narrative energy.” It’s always refreshing to find a writer who takes such joy in the magical tricks words can perform.” Pessl’s pyrotechnics place her alongside young, eclectic talents like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Zadie Smith.” Pessl’s talent for verbal acrobatics keeps the pages flipping.” This skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more.” “The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl’s tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring. Q: Is Special Topics in Calamity Physics required reading for devotees of inventive new fiction? A: Yes.” “A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel, delivered in an irrepressibly smart and flamboyant new voice. Praise for Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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