I Have Some Questions for You

A “A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s -- Named a Best Book of 2023 by The riveting new novel -- "part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age" ( f rom the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist 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 &#64258;aws. 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 trans&#64257;xing 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....

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Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime—four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

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*A NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER&#160;

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more

“A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —*People&#160;

"Spellbinding."&#160;—The New York Times Book Review

"[An] irresistible literary page-turner." *—The Boston Globe

The riveting new novel&#160;—&#160;"part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age" (San Francisco Chronicle) — 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 &#64258;aws. 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 trans&#64257;xing 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.

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Thought-provoking, deeply unsettling and undeniably riveting...A fully immersive, addictive whodunit. San Francisco Chronicle

A spellbinding work...[Makkai s] prose is lean yet lush, with short, incantatory chapters and sentences as taut as piano wire. New York Times Book Review

Enthralling...Rich in incident and alive with expressive imagery. *Wall Street Journal

• A great accomplishment. [I Have Some Questions for You] *is at once a campus novel, a piercing reflection on the appeal and ethics of the true crime genre, and a story of Me Too reckoning. It is also the most irresistible literary page-turner I have read in years...Exquisitely suspenseful and enormously entertaining. Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe*

• [I Have Some Questions for You] embraces the intricate plotting and emotional heft that made [Makkai s] previous novel, *The Great Believers, a Pulitzer finalist...Makkai sharply conveys the insidiousness of misogyny...[and] deftly explores how remembrance can melt into reverie...Her patient, evocative character work prevents Omar and Thalia from becoming types...The result is not a book that leers at a discrete and unfathomable act of violence but one that investigates... two stolen lives. The New Yorker

  Vastly entertaining . . . both a thickly-plotted, character-driven mystery and a stylishly self-aware novel of ideas . . . in a twist worthy of Poe, Makkai suggests that the truth alone may not set you free or lay spirits to rest. Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

  Bewitching. Vanity Fair

  [An] addictive page-turner. *O Quarterly

• As we race through [I Have Some Questions for You], we re pulled into playing much the same role as Bodie does: trying to piece together the various stories, eagerly awaiting a verdict . . . [Makkai] leaves us to fill in the gaps, to conjure the lurid details from scraps and rumors trapped in a quest, her agile book reminds us, that should always leave us second-guessing. The Atlantic

  A critique of the true-crime obsession and its inherent voyeurism, refracted through everyone s new favorite storytelling device, the podcast . . . This sense of collective responsibility is the kind of nuance that doesn t often emerge from the true-crime content mills. In the world of I Have Some Questions for You, however, there s an insistent hope that the truth still matters, even when it s complicated that the right thing might happen despite the near-impossibility of justice in our society. The Nation

  Makkai s powerhouse novel has all the draw and momentum of the wildly entertaining mystery that it is, but lurking behind the plot is a series of escalating existential questions about trauma, memory, and the ever-shifting terrain of the past . . . Makkai brings to the story a vertiginous sensation of falling again and again into new doubts and desires, one that brings to mind Hitchcock at his best and forces the reader constantly to double back and wonder where the story has taken them, really. I Have Some Questions For You is a smart, sophisticated mystery, crafted with verve. CrimeReads, The Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far) …