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A Novel
Length
14 hours 3 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
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“It's the one where they rush to judgment and incarcerate a black man on flimsy evidence. It's the one where people knew more than they said. It's the one where a woman is at the mercy of a man. This is a compelling book; a dark window into our culture where assumptions, or proclamations of innocence or guilt, often get in the way of the truth.....and women tend to pay the lion's share of the costs.”
— Kathy • The Well-Read Moose
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“If you are a true crime podcast enthusiast like me, you will love this book! It hits all the satisfying notes of a thorough investigation with a great mix of drama and introspection. Makkai masterfully weaves delicate themes - racism, misogyny, the #MeToo movement, prison industrial complex, and the injustice baked into our justice system - into the story with nuance and compassion. I never felt preached to, and in fact, found plenty of room to draw my own conclusions. ”
— Zinna • A Great Good Place for Books
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“Inviting comparison to Tana French's In the Woods, this literary mystery evokes two very different times in the history of youth as observed by someone who sees absolutely everything... except the one clue that would finally answer the haunting question of her best friend's death. Thinking through conflicts of interest and the terrible realities of our policing and legal systems, sometimes in passages that could be published separately as list poems, Makkai has presented us with a slightly unreliable, sometimes very funny narrator whose two experiences in a remote, isolated community tell us as much about blame, guilt, and 'justice' as cultural phenomena as they do about the murder that readers will listen long into the night to hear solved...”
— Nialle • The Haunted Bookshop
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“A literary mystery by the award-winning author of The Great Believers. Makkai cleverly tackles relevant topics in this page-turner.”
— Melanie • Bookstore1Sarasota
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“Bodie Kane, a film professor and podcaster, returns to teach at the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four not-so-happy years. Questions arise that lead Bodie to reinvestigate the murder of her high-school roommate. Sex, privilege, power, wrongful convictions, shared-memories, and changing ideas are all explored in this clever novel, filled with memorable characters and lots of things to chew on. ”
— Sarah • A Great Good Place for Books
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“I Have Some Questions for You uses a lot of common tropes of psychological thrillers - the true crime podcast, the boarding school murder - yet it never once succumbs to the trappings...It's simultaneously a nuanced look at #metoo, the sensationalization of murdered (white) women in true crime, the corrupt criminal justice system, and the ways in which women's bodies are mistreated and discarded. The opening passage is truly devastating, reading in part: 'Wasn't it the one where she was stabbed in - no. The one where she got in a cab with—different girl. The one where she went to a frat party, the one where he used a stick, the one where he used a hammer, the one where she picked him up from rehab and he - no...It's the one with the swimming pool.' This repetition and cadence is echoed artfully in key passages throughout the book, serving up a gut punch every time. ”
— Rachel • The Book Table
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“Rebecca Makkai redefines the campus novel for our current times. This was deftly written with such a fresh perspective and clever deconstruction of a murder case, I walked around my apartment fully immersed, book in hand.”
— Kira • Merritt Bookstore
Bookseller recommendation
“It's the one where they rush to judgment and incarcerate a black man on flimsy evidence. It's the one where people knew more than they said. It's the one where a woman is at the mercy of a man. This is a compelling book; a dark window into our culture where assumption, or proclamations of innocence or guilt often get in the way of the truth.....and women tend to pay the lion's share of the costs. It's an excellent audio book.”
— Kathy • The Well-Read Moose
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“Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel explores the true crime genre with an awareness of its troubling use of murder as profitable entertainment. At the same time, however, her main character partly makes her living from a podcast about Hollywood’s abuse of actresses during the Golden Age, using her influential platform to help solve a decades-old murder. Makkai’s multi-layered narrative adroitly examines the fallibility of memories, both collective and personal; the complexities of the #MeToo movement; the judgments of the 'court' of social media; the inequities of the legal system; the prevalence of domestic violence; and the overt and covert racism, sexism, and class snobbery of elite prep schools...I Have Some Questions for You is ultimately a murder mystery with red herrings, unreliable witnesses, courtroom scenes, and proof hiding in plain sight. I was captivated from the very beginning. ”
— Shirley • Watermark Books
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“Fresh, current and performed brilliantly by Julia Whelan and JD Jackson! I loved the way the story unfolded, the voice of the unassuming protagonist, and the way she used the "The one where...." and listed a few similar sad, remarkable events to show how repetitively these things happen. Don't sleep on this one! ”
— Melanie Chun • The Well-Read Moose
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“A scorching, compelling read, this is a calling out of violence against women: how it's reported, poorly prosecuted, lightly punished, sensationalized, ignored, held against us, and so deeply ingrained in our culture. A New England prep school is the perfect setting for this collision of podcasts, old secrets hidden deep, racism, sexism, growing pains, and the lenses we have, shed, and change as we grow. Julia Whelan's narration is, as always, phenomenal. I could not stop listening - this is a 10/10 for me.”
— Ashleigh • Wellesley Books
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“Rebecca Makkai is an expert story weaver. From minute 1, I was hyper-engrossed in her newest novel and it consumed every free moment I had for 48 hours. From it's quaint, cozy, and problematic boarding school campus to the world of podcasting, to an ever unraveling murder mystery, I Have Some Questions for You defies all expectations and keeps you on the edge of your seat!”
— Kimi • Buttonwood Books and Toys
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People
"Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review
"[An] irresistible literary page-turner." —The Boston Globe
Named a Best Book of 2023 by USA Today, Esquire, Real Simple, PopSugar, and CrimeReads
The riveting new novel — "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 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.
Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels I Have Some Questions for You, The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Great Believers received an American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. A 2022 Guggenheim fellow, Makkai is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago. She lives on the campus of the midwestern boarding school where her husband teaches, and in Vermont.
