Marisha Pessl
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Marisha Pessl’s bestselling first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and currently resides in New York City.
Books by Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
An unforgettable debut novel that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock: a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit.