Download Special Topics In Calamity Physics Background. Marisha pessl's debut novel, special topics in calamity physics, focuses around one year in the life of the protagonist and narrator, blue van meer. Special topics in calamity physics (2006) is the debut novel by american writer marisha pessl.

Special topics in calamity physics, marisha pessl. She is named after the cassius blue butterfly, which her mother loved to catch. (kirkus) marisha pessl's special topics in calamity physics is the most flashily erudite first novel since jonathan safran foer's everything is illuminated.a whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel, delivered in an irrepressibly smart and flamboyant new voice.q.

Pessl wrote three drafts of the book, telling kenyon review that each draft took about a year.

For years i had a nickname for them, though i feel a little guilty using it now: Excerpt special topics in calamity physics. After moving across america for years with her charismatic and intensely educated father as the only constant in her life, blue van meer finally gets to spend a solid year in a single town to finish high school. But she could use some friends.