{"product_id":"i-have-some-questions-for-you-9780349727219","title":"I Have Some Questions For You","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe riveting new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Believers\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia''s death and the conviction of the school''s athletics coach, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefers-needs-to let sleeping dogs lie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But when The Granby School invites her back to teach a two-week course, Bodie finds herself 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMakkai doesn't shy away from moral complication in this \u003cb\u003eimpressive and complex\u003c\/b\u003e novel * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e[An] absorbing thriller... As well as being a well-plotted crime tale, the novel has pertinent things to say about the fetishising of murder, about easy online outrage, and about people who insert themselves into someone else's story.\u003ci\u003e I Have Some Questions for You\u003c\/i\u003e also offers a thought-provoking re-evaluation of what was problematic about male behaviour in the 1990s in the light of the #MeToo scandals of the 21st century * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA sharp addition to the 'dark academia' canon * Grazia *\u003cbr\u003eInsights into power, race and our fascination with true crime boost a satisfyingly plot-y mystery * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eCompulsively readable -- Jessie Thompson * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eMakkai, though, approaches [memories] as a writer curious about psychology. She deftly explores how remembrance can melt into reverie, especially in speculative sections that attempt to reconstruct the scene of Thalia's death. And she nails, too, what it's like to remember . . . beautifully evokes the layered, full-body immersion that occurs when you return to a familiar place, and the weird gravity of an institution like Granby, whose students are transient but whose structures endure . . . \u003cb\u003eIt's the perfect crime\u003c\/b\u003e * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eHer prose is lean yet lush, with short, incantatory chapters and sentences as taut as piano wire . . . whip-smart and uncompromising * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVastly entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e . . .\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e I Have Some Questions for You\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is both a thickly-plotted, character-driven mystery and a stylishly self-aware novel of ideas\u003c\/b\u003e. It's being rightfully compared to Donna Tartt's 1992 blockbuster debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e, because of its New England campus setting and because of the haunting voice-over that frames both novel . . \u003cb\u003e in a twist worthy of Poe, Makkai suggests that the truth alone may not set you free or lay spirits to rest\u003c\/b\u003e * Fresh Air, NPR *\u003cbr\u003eIt is at once a propulsive crime story and a thought-provoking meditation on sex, race and the abuse of power * Economist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engrossing reflection of sexual politics and the devastating vagaries of the justice system\u003c\/b\u003e . . . you'll be gripped by the mystery at its heart\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mirror *\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003eaddictive page-turner\u003c\/b\u003e, Makkai skewers how and why missing girls become media commodities * Oprah Daily *\u003cbr\u003eI've been waiting \u003ci\u003eyears\u003c\/i\u003e for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. \u003cb\u003eMakkai has written the book of the season\u003c\/b\u003e -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less Is Lost\u003cbr\u003ePart boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU is \u003cb\u003ea true literary mystery -haunting and hard to put down\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer winner and author of The Candy House\u003cbr\u003eBoth a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003eI Have Some Questions for You\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eWhat a feat of storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind\u003cbr\u003eOne of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai is her absolutely engaging written voice; reading her books feels like hearing a well-told story by a longtime friend.\u003cb\u003e This book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethrough the voice of its beautifully complex narrator, Bodie Kane \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebrings readers along on a journey they won't forget\u003c\/b\u003e -- Liz Moore, author of Long Bright River\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Makkai's extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in\u003ci\u003e I Have Some Questions for You\u003c\/i\u003e, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class\u003c\/b\u003e 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, author of Valentine\u003cbr\u003eI adored \u003ci\u003eI Have Some Questions For You\u003c\/i\u003e. It was so beautifully stitched together, and the voice was desolate, detached, perfection. The looping nature of the narrative, the Serial-esque telling - everything was propulsive but also meandering in a way that had a vice-like control. \u003cb\u003eMy favourite book I've read this year, what an absolute triumph\u003c\/b\u003e -- Heather Darwent, author of The Things We Do To Our Friends\u003cbr\u003eSome books are so universal that they feel bizarrely specific: I read \u003ci\u003eI Have Some Questions for You \u003c\/i\u003eas if it was written just for me, but I can't imagine who wouldn't love it. \u003cb\u003eTimely, provocative, nuanced, generous-Rebecca Makkai astonishes once again with the perfect combination of brains and heart\u003c\/b\u003e * Laura Lippmann, author of Dream Girl *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Have Some Questions for You\u003c\/i\u003e ponders the nature and value of metaphor and muses on the fallibility of memory, the ease with which false narratives take shape, the human predilection for storytelling, and the way that stories can clarify and illuminate or mislead and misdirect. That Makkai's ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological deliberations find form in\u003cb\u003e an exquisitely suspenseful and enormously entertaining story \u003c\/b\u003emakes her work\u003cb\u003e a beguiling reflection of the conundrum it so beautifully anatomizes\u003c\/b\u003e * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is sure to be a hit\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e[Makkai adds] intriguing layers of complication . . . \u003cb\u003eWell plotted, well written, and well designed\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eBoth wide-angle observer and genius provocateur, Bodie is so real readers will expect to find her in their own yearbooks. Chilled as the deep New England winters during which it takes place and twisty with the slowly found and then suddenly illuminated branches of memory, \u003cb\u003eMakkai's rich, winding story dazzles from cover to cover\u003c\/b\u003e. * Booklist, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndlessly intriguing, shrewd and suspenseful \u003c\/b\u003e. . . \u003ci\u003eI Have Some Questions for You\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turning read with compelling characters and sharp insights into power dynamics * Apple *\u003cbr\u003eQuietly riveting * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eA clever crime caper that tackles some big questions, it's \u003cb\u003estorytelling at its best\u003c\/b\u003e -- Daisy Lester * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eClever [and] thought-provoking * Good Housekeeping *\u003cbr\u003eDark acad\u003cb\u003eemia meets state of America in this brilliant, original novel\u003c\/b\u003e . . . not only a miscarriage of justice, but matters of class, race, guilt, internet witch-hunts and what - even in tiny communities - we can ever really know about each other * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA novel that combines the smarts of literary fiction with the thrills of a whodunnit, topped with all the divertissements of the best boarding school-set dramas . . . speaks loudly to the moment, but nothing about it feels faddy. \u003cb\u003eMakkai is an exciting and talented storyteller, and this novel is a triumph\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eI dare any reader to not find themselves utterly engrossed in Makkai's superbly paced mystery . . . one of the most satisfying reading experiences I've had in a long time . . . \u003cb\u003eit is a robust literary mystery and something (and I don't make this comparison lightly) that could've been penned by Donna Tartt\u003c\/b\u003e -- Barry Pierce * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003eMakkai places her fictional murder firmly in the context of violence against women, cancel culture and our obsession with true crime . . . 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