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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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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.

REVIEWS

"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

"The Secret History meets Serial...[in this] modern campus novel, in which a woman goes back to her old boarding school to teach a class on podcasting and winds up reliving--and relitigating--her own youth and the murder of a classmate." --LitHub

PB BOOK CLUB

Wednesday April 26th, 8pm at HudCo
145 Palisade Street, Suite 200, Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522

Join Sara of Picture Book & Stephanie of Parson Brown for a fun & casual book club to discuss I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. You can purchase the book from Picture Book here or use Libro.fm if you prefer audiobooks. This is a free event, open to all, but please rsvp to Sara at picturebookny@gmail.com so we know how many people to expect. Looking forward to another great talk!