Lawrence - 'The Housebreaker of Shady Hill' / John Cheever - Sweet Bird of Youth / Tennessee Williams - Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov - The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - A Room with a View / E.M. Othello / William Shakespeare - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce - Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë - The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins - Brave New World / Aldous Huxley - Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert - Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw - The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie - Moby Dick / Herman Melville - A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway - Women in Love / D.H. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide, or misguide, her Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge, and is quite the cinéaste to boot.

A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.

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