![]() ![]() ![]() Where I grew up in North Carolina, many children were home schooled, and I always found that so unusual and mysterious: what it would be like to have your parent quite literally your teacher, how powerful yet isolating it might be. In terms of a germinating idea, I began with character≻lues voice first, then Gareth, the dynamic of father and daughter. Given my tendency to fall asleep at my desk, my dazed and often nonsensical answers to my bosss questions, I do think my coworkers suspected I was up to somethingbut were too afraid to ask what it was! I began the book when I was twenty-four and, until I moved to London, lived something of a double life working as a financial consultant during the day and writing at night, sometimes all night. What was the inspiration for this very original story? How and when did you begin writing it? Special Topics in Calamity Physics is your first novel. ![]() Marisha Pessl discusses her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which is structured around the syllabus of a Great Works of Literature class, and what inspired her to write it. ![]()
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