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I have some questions for you / Rebecca Makkai.

Makkai, Rebecca, (author.). Whelan, Julia, 1984- (narrator.). Jackson, JD, (narrator.).

Summary:

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by TIME, NPR, USA Today, Elle, Newsweek, Salon, Bustle, AARP, The Millions, Good Housekeeping, and more"Unputdownable and unforgettable." --Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less is Lost"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery--haunting and hard to put down." --Jennifer Egan, author of Candy HouseThe riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great BelieversA 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593670699
  • ISBN: 0593670698
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (14 hr., 10 min., 01 sec.)) : digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2023.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Julia Whelan and JD Jackson.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive; viewed February 24, 2023).
Subject:
Boarding schools > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
New Hampshire > Fiction.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
School fiction.

Other Formats and Editions

English (3)

Electronic resources


  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 April #1
    *Starred Review* Bodie Kane, a successful podcaster and professor of film, goes back for a two-week stint to her old private high school in New Hampshire to teach classes on podcasting and film history. Her return awakens memories of friends—particularly her roommate, Thalia, who was murdered in her senior year. When one of her students decides to base her podcast on the crime, Bodie is forced to re-examine the facts. Reader Whelan is once again in top form as she spins this increasingly complex web. Her characters are each believably distinct and her reading is flawless. Bodie's thoughts are directed at a former teacher, the head of the music department whom Bodie suspects was a little too close to his teenage students, particularly Thalia. As the story unwinds, Whelan raises the intensity and makes it all believable. A deep-toned JD Jackson voices Omar's portion of the podcast. This story is riddled with references and excerpts from podcasts which make the audio version especially effective and offers an element of realism that distinguishes it from the print. Makkai fans as well as lovers of mystery, courtroom drama, and true crime will be hooked from the start by the complex plot and pitch-perfect narration. Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.
  • LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews

    Makkai (The Great Believers) delivers an emotionally complex story about the costs and rewards of seeking the truth. Bodie Kane always felt like an outsider at Granby, the prestigious boarding school she attended in the mid-1990s. She both envied and disdained the lives of the privileged students who gathered around the magnetic Thalia Keith. When Bodie returns to Granby in 2018, those old feelings return as she grapples with the impact of the #MeToo movement and the questionable circumstances around Thalia's death. Julia Whelan masterfully embodies the messy realities of Bodie as a woman whose successful career and loving family project a portrait her self-image can't match. Bodie's practiced podcaster smoothness devolves into fear and shaking rage as she contemplates how she and her classmates were encouraged to put up with casual violations by the boys and men around them. Whelan is equally adept at voicing secondary characters, matching her tones and cadence to cocky athletes and sensitive theater kids alike. JD Jackson makes a brief but pivotal appearance as the man who was swiftly and perhaps wrongfully convicted of Thalia's murder. VERDICT Highly recommended for all audio collections; for lovers of contemporary literary fiction and true crime podcasts.—Natalie Marshall

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