By Marisha Pessl.
Kind of a hard book to describe. In some ways, it reminds me alot of A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius, in that the author and protagonist are brimming with self-consciousness. But it's also foundationally a story about growing up, and the tragic tones that make their abode around the edge of the first two thirds of the novel forcefully conjure Holden Caufield (I know...). Lingering senses of foreboding twist themselves into an out and out mystery later in the book, and I don't want to give away anything more than that. A final note--key to the entire book is an engine of literary reference, and it's that newer twist to a genre that is still young itself that has everyone talking about this book. Read it.
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