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.
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.
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Prose narratives examining historical crisis, personal memory, and societal institutions have defined a major strand of contemporary American fiction, notably through acclaimed novels such as The Great Believers. Author Rebecca Makkai crafts intricate stories that connect past tragedies to present-day realities, examining community resilience and individual responsibility.
Born on April 20, 1978, Makkai earned a Master of Arts in literature from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in 2004. She initially began her writing career while working as an elementary Montessori teacher before transitioning to full-time writing and teaching at the university level. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she serves as the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago and teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College, Northwestern University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Makkai's narratives often weave together parallel timelines and complex character networks to explore themes of grief, art, systemic injustice, and moral responsibility. Her works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, frequently examine how historical moments—such as the 1980s AIDS crisis or past institutional scandals—reverberate through decades of individual lives.
3 books in catalog
Prose narratives examining historical crisis, personal memory, and societal institutions have defined a major strand of contemporary American fiction, notably through acclaimed novels such as The Great Believers. Author Rebecca Makkai crafts intricate stories that connect past tragedies to present-day realities, examining community resilience and individual responsibility.
Born on April 20, 1978, Makkai earned a Master of Arts in literature from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in 2004. She initially began her writing career while working as an elementary Montessori teacher before transitioning to full-time writing and teaching at the university level. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she serves as the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago and teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College, Northwestern University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Makkai's narratives often weave together parallel timelines and complex character networks to explore themes of grief, art, systemic injustice, and moral responsibility. Her works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, frequently examine how historical moments—such as the 1980s AIDS crisis or past institutional scandals—reverberate through decades of individual lives.
