The book’s first half deals with setting the scene and describing all the characters – in excruciating detail, but with a baffling vagueness. She had an elegant sort of romantic, bone-sculpted face, one that took well to both shadows and light. Until she joins a new school, makes a new set of friends, and develops a rather unhealthy fascination with her teacher Hannah Schneider. The two are best friends, and he is a strong presence in her life. Blue is a hyper-intelligent and hyper-aware girl who lives a nomadic life with her adorable dad. In some ways, this book is a coming-of-age story + murder mystery. 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 with only her instincts and cultural references to guide her. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. 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.
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