![]() ![]() During Blue's senior year, however, they settle in the sleepy town of Stockton, North Carolina. She is the daughter of itinerant and arrogant academic Gareth van Meer, who, after the death of his amateur lepidopteran-catching wife (and Blue's mother), never manages to stay at a high school for more than a semester. Plot īlue van Meer is a film-obsessed, erudite teenager. The book was first published in August 2006 by Viking Press, a division of Penguin Group, and was a subject of a bidding war that ended in a sale for six figures. And it took two or three drafts to figure that out." That was really the challenge of this book. You have to have a really firm handle on what all of the characters are doing, even if your narrator doesn’t understand. Writing from the standpoint of an unreliable narrator, you as the author have to know exactly what’s going on at all times. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t so much that I was revising Blue’s voice or the language, but that I wanted to make sure the mystery worked perfectly, that all the twists and turns really worked. Pessl wrote three drafts of the book, telling Kenyon Review that "each draft took about a year. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) is the debut novel by American writer Marisha Pessl. ![]()
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