I Have Some Questions for You
“Julia Whelan’s performance is so consistently gripping…Whelan deftly navigates the cast of characters, making the whole listening experience seamless…JD Jackson shines in a pivotal cameo that is essential to the story and a bonus for audiobook fans…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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A February 2023 LibraryReads Pick
A New York Times bestseller
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
A Barnes & Noble bestseller
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2023
A USA Today Best Book of the Year
An Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year
A CrimeReads Pick of 2023's Best Books
A 2023 PopSugar Best Books Pick
A Real Simple Pick of Best Books of 2023
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.
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