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Iola Dyson, 17, has a bizarre gift for talking depressed classmates off the roof. Literally.At her boarding school, whenever a student is spotted on the ledge of Flyer Hall, threatening to plunge to their death, no one calls the campus police. They call Iola, who dashes immediately to the scene. Possessing as she does a curious, almost otherworldly insight into the human condition, Iola has never once failed to talk down a desperate teen and prevent a tragic suicide.How did a varsity sprinter who has never left the state of Alabama come to have this superpower? Only Iola knows. But she's never told anyone. She can't tell anyone. Her secret is so cosmic–so berserk-that telling anyone would undoubtedly land her in a psych ward.Finally, when the burden of Iola's secret takes her to a breaking point, she tells her story to a lonely local college professor. The moment she does so, the universe turns against her in terrifying ways.Deep Down Iola is a funny, suspenseful, fantastical adventure. But more than that, it is the story of a young woman's struggle to live her life her own way. Peter Mehlman is an award-winning journalist, essayist, author, screenwriter, and producer. He is most well-known for his eight years at Seinfeld, ultimately as Executive Producer. He will be forever remembered for coining the phrase "Yada, Yada," included in the Oxford English Dictionary. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Peter Mehlman, a New York native, became a writer for The Washington Post.He slid to television in 1982, writing for SportsBeat with Howard Cosell . From 1985-90, he returned to forming full sentences as a writer for numerous national publications, including The New York Times Magazine , GQ , and Esquire .In 1989, two years after moving to Los Angeles, he became a writer for the iconic TV show, Seinfeld . Over the eight-year run of the show, Mehlman rose to executive producer and coined such well-known Seinfeld-isms as "spongeworthy,""shrinkage," "double-dipping," and "yada, yada," the last of which has been included as an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.In 1997, Mehlman joined DreamWorks and created It's Like, You Know… a scathing look at life in Los Angeles. In recent years, he has written screenplays, novels, and humor pieces, many of which were collected in his book, Mandela Was Late.Mehlman has appeared on-camera for TNT Sports and the Webby-nominated Peter Mehlman's Narrow World of Sports. He's the creator of the lifestyle brand Bravely Oblivious. He lives in Los Angeles.