A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 "Spellbinding." --
The New York Times Book Review "[An] irresistible literary page-turner."
--The Boston Globe 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.
Author: Rebecca Makkai
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780593490143
Review Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2022 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly 11/07/2022
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2022
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 105
Library Journal 02/10/2023 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 02/24/2023
School Library Journal 05/01/2023 pg. 90
BookPage 03/01/2023
About the AuthorRebecca 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.