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A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year Neverworld Wake is a shape-shifting binge read . . . It's a 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read. --Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel World An altogether eerie, philosophically challenging exploration of the ways in which our actions have consequences . . . the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know immediately after finishing. -- Nylon The first must-read of beach season. --Town & Country Sophisticated. -VOYA, starred review Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics) adeptly creates a compelling nightmare world while maintaining a foothold in realism. Thought-provoking and suspenseful. --PW Unpredictable, exciting, and emotionally wrenching. --SLJ An eloquent and haunting tale. --Kirkus Reviews Odd, atmospheric. --Booklist A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense. -Bustle

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year Neverworld Wake is a shape-shifting binge read . . . It's a 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read, singular as both a psychological thriller and a new addition to Pessl's uncategorizable canon. --Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel World Beautifully creepy . . . .A mystery within a mystery. --The New York Times An altogether eerie, philosophically challenging exploration of the ways in which our actions have consequences . . . the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know immediately after finishing. -- Nylon The first must-read of beach season. --Town & Country [A]sophisticated novel ... similar to Libba Bray's acclaimed Going Bovine.--VOYA, starred review Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics) adeptly creates a compelling nightmare world while maintaining a foothold in realism. Thought-provoking and suspenseful. --PW Unpredictable, exciting, and emotionally wrenching. --SLJ Pessl manages to keep her first-person narrative moving forward while her characters are stuck in time. An eloquent and haunting tale. --Kirkus Reviews This novel has ambition to spare, and teens looking for something odd, atmospheric, and twisty will likely be enthralled. --Booklist . . . there's a broad range of readers who will find Neverworld a place in which to linger. --The Bulletin A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense. --Bustle

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year Neverworld Wake is a shape-shifting binge read . . . It's a 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read, singular as both a psychological thriller and a new addition to Pessl's uncategorizable canon. --Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel World Beautifully creepy . . . .A mystery within a mystery. --The New York Times An altogether eerie, philosophically challenging exploration of the ways in which our actions have consequences . . . the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know immediately after finishing. -- Nylon The first must-read of beach season. --Town & Country [A]sophisticated novel ... similar to Libba Bray's acclaimed Going Bovine. --VOYA, starred review Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics) adeptly creates a compelling nightmare world while maintaining a foothold in realism. Thought-provoking and suspenseful. --PW Unpredictable, exciting, and emotionally wrenching. --SLJ Pessl manages to keep her first-person narrative moving forward while her characters are stuck in time. An eloquent and haunting tale. --Kirkus Reviews This novel has ambition to spare, and teens looking for something odd, atmospheric, and twisty will likely be enthralled. --Booklist . . . there's a broad range of readers who will find Neverworld a place in which to linger. --The Bulletin A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense. --Bustle

"A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year   ""Neverworld Wake is a shape-shifting binge read . . . It's a 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read."" --Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel World ""An altogether eerie, philosophically challenging exploration of the ways in which our actions have consequences . . . the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know immediately after finishing."" -- Nylon ""The first must-read of beach season."" --Town & Country ★ ""Sophisticated.""—VOYA, starred review ""Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics) adeptly creates a compelling nightmare world while maintaining a foothold in realism. Thought-provoking and suspenseful."" --PW ""Unpredictable, exciting, and emotionally wrenching."" --SLJ ""An eloquent and haunting tale."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Odd, atmospheric."" --Booklist   “A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense.” —Bustle"

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Marisha Pessl is the author of Night Film and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize) and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and currently resides in New York City.

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