A lifelong New Yorker, she now resides in Maine with her husband and her enamel pin collection.
Fan Club is her first novel.
At The Strand Magazine Mayer tagged eleven favorite enigmatic cliques in literature, including:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha PesslRead about the other entries on the list.
If you’ve read and loved The Secret History, this is just about the closest read-alike I’ve ever found. Yes, it revolves around a group of students who are drawn to a charismatic professor, but the real highlight is our narrator Blue, whose distinctive voice guides us through the story as mysteries unfold.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is among Kiley Reid’s five top novels with incredible child caregivers and Brian Boone's fifty essential high school stories.
The Page 69 Test: Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
--Marshal Zeringue