![]() ![]() ![]() Pessl has a distinct style and affect, with characters who tend to be brilliant and uber-educated in both books and film (indicating to me that Pessl herself is simply a genius who had strong formal and informal education), and with the entertaining touches of drawings, small photo illustrations and other “visual aids” interspersed throughout the pages. But a) it’s more than that, just as much the story about a girl’s last year of high school and the relationships she has to navigate as it is a mystery about a death under strange circumstances, and b) it’s by Marisha Pessl, who went on to write Night Film, a very different type of story with an altogether different atmosphere (gothic, dark). Technically, Marisha Pessl’s debut, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, is in part a coming-of-age novel (with very little sex, incidentally). Honestly, too many of them tend to not merely touch on but focus on a teen’s sexual awakening, so I’ve become accustomed to saying, No, thanks. ![]() Generally I avoid books that are touted as being “coming-of-age” novels. ![]()
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