![]() ![]() 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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