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I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by TIME, NPR, USA Today, Elle, Newsweek, Salon, Bustle, AARP, The Millions, Good Housekeeping, and more
"Unputdownable and unforgettable." -Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less is Lost
"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery-haunting and hard to put down." -Jennifer Egan, author of Candy House
The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past-the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers-needs-to let sleeping dogs lie.
But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn't as much of an outsider at Granby as she'd thought-if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.
In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman's reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.
"Unputdownable and unforgettable." -Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less is Lost
"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery-haunting and hard to put down." -Jennifer Egan, author of Candy House
The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past-the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers-needs-to let sleeping dogs lie.
But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn't as much of an outsider at Granby as she'd thought-if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.
In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman's reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.
Editorial Reviews
Advance praise for I Have Some Questions for You:
"I've been waiting years for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. Makkai has written the book of the season." -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
"Both a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, I Have Some Questions for You narrates one woman's interrogation of her own past while in turn posing difficult questions directly to its reader: about sex, power, privilege, and the ambient violence of contemporary American life. What a feat." -Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery-haunting and hard to put down." -Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House
"Some books are so universal that they feel bizarrely specific: I read I Have Some Questions for You as if it was written just for me, but I can't imagine who wouldn't love it. Timely, provocative, nuanced, generous-Rebecca Makkai astonishes once again with the perfect combination of brains and heart." -Laura Lippmann, author of Dream Girl
"Rebecca Makkai's extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in I Have Some Questions for You, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery andan urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class in a New England boarding school. I loved walking alongside narrator Bodie Kane-angry, obsessive, struggling with her own traumatic memories-in her imperfect attempts to reckon with a past she longs to leave behind." -Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine
"One of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai's writing is her absolutely engaging voice; reading her books f...
"I've been waiting years for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. Makkai has written the book of the season." -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
"Both a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, I Have Some Questions for You narrates one woman's interrogation of her own past while in turn posing difficult questions directly to its reader: about sex, power, privilege, and the ambient violence of contemporary American life. What a feat." -Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery-haunting and hard to put down." -Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House
"Some books are so universal that they feel bizarrely specific: I read I Have Some Questions for You as if it was written just for me, but I can't imagine who wouldn't love it. Timely, provocative, nuanced, generous-Rebecca Makkai astonishes once again with the perfect combination of brains and heart." -Laura Lippmann, author of Dream Girl
"Rebecca Makkai's extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in I Have Some Questions for You, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery andan urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class in a New England boarding school. I loved walking alongside narrator Bodie Kane-angry, obsessive, struggling with her own traumatic memories-in her imperfect attempts to reckon with a past she longs to leave behind." -Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine
"One of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai's writing is her absolutely engaging voice; reading her books f...
