Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions For You
This gripped me from page one and didn’t really let go of me until the bittersweet conclusion. It’s the story of a forty-something woman (I actually think my exact age or the year ahead of me in school), a well-known podcaster and Film Studies professor, who’s returning to the boarding school she attended in the 90s to teach a couple of classes. She’s kind of a messy person so when one of her students wants to do a podcast about the murder of a girl at the school—the narrator's classmate and one-time roommate—she’s totally on board. There are some interesting little mini-mysteries along the way: what's the protagonist's deal, who is she addressing in her narration, etc, but of course the main thing is, was the wrong person arrested for the murder, and can a couple of podcasting high-schoolers crack the case? I actually wasn’t sure for a while if this was going to be a traditional mystery novel, and not just a literary novel about crime and our society's fascination with pretty dead women and middle-aged people confronting their pasts, but it’s both! I admit to being the target audience for this book (the mention of Sunflowers perfume caused a visceral sense memory) but I think it does deserve an A.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on February 21st.
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