num_pages: 514
description: 
  I wrote this account one year after I'd found Hannah dead.
I thought I'd managed to erase all traces of that night within myself.But I was wrong.Every night when I tried to sleep, I'd close my eyes and see her again, exactly as I found her, hanging from a pine tree by an orange elctrical cord, her neck twisted like a tulip stem, her eyes seeing nothing.Or else that was the problem. They'd seen everything.This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction.
language: English
title: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
titlecomplete: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
characters: Smoke Wyannoch Harvey, Arnie Sanderson, Norvel Owen, Eugenia Sturds, Lonny Felix, Fayonette Harper, Roy Withers, Ms. Gershon, Andreo Verduga, Lee Sanjay Song, Jefferson Whitestone, Blue van Meer, Pa Havermeyer, Victor Moats, Ms. Simpson, Natasha Alicia Bridges van Meer, Wilson Gnut, Alfred Johnson, Howie Valerio, Violet May Martinez, Frank Fletcher
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Young Adult, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 46592
places: Stockton, North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Center for Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Viking