Butterflies and their fragility are a recurring motif throughout the entire novel. The character of Blue is erudite to the point of being unbearably pedantic. Furthermore, each of the chapters is titled with famous works of literature such as Othello, Moby Dick, and The Big Sleep. Sprinkled throughout the text are hand-drawn illustrations of characters and alleged photographs/art, always referred to parenthetically as Figures. Gallway School, mixed with an academic monograph, complete with cited references and quotes of famous books, plays, poetry, art, and films. The book is divided into three parts, and the overall writing style of the novel is a combination of first person memoir of an older Blue looking back on her childhood and time at St. When the film studies teacher at the school dies under mysterious circumstances, it is up to Blue to figure out who Hannah Schneider really was and if she died of suicide, or if she was murdered and by whom. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina. The story follows Blue van Meer, a teenager who attends the St. Marisha Pessl’s debut mystery novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) won the first Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize in 2006 and made the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006 list.
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