A Darkly Funny Coming-of-age Novel And A Richly Plotted Suspense Tale Told Through The Distinctive Voice Of Its Heroine, Blue Van Meer. 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. In Her Final Year Of High School At The élite (and Unusual) St. Gallway School In Stockton, North Carolina, Blue Falls In With A Charismatic Group Of Friends And Their Captivating Teacher, Hannah Schneider. 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.--from Publisher Description.