Marisha Pessl books

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006)

I really wanted to like this book.But it’s a train wreck. The literary carnage is so grotesque and horrifying, you can’t help but look, read. (And I promise you, just take my word for it, that metaphor is better than most that Pessl uses in this debut novel of hers.)Despite what Bayard says, it’s...