Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl is such a smart book! Sarah was reading it over the holidays and gave it a good review, so we picked it for my book club.
Unfortunately, we haven't had our meeting yet, so I was holding off posting so I wouldn't give away my thoughts on the book, but I figured I'd better post something.
Blue is a high school student - but definitely not your average teenager. Her mother was killed in a car accident when she was young and since then she and her father don't stay any place for very long. For her senior year in high school, they settle in the NC mountains where she will attend St. Gallways. There she becomes part of an elite group of students, the blue bloods, who have a close relationship with one teacher, Hannah Schnieder (sometimes distrubingly close).
In that year, Blue gets the chance to be more of a "typical" teenager but also learns more about her life, her mother's death as she recounts the tale of Hannah Schneider's death.
At times, I thought the voice of Blue was a little too mature for a teenager, but then by the end it all made perfect sense.
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