On-Your-Own Book Club

"I Have Some Questions For You" by Rebecca Makkai

No meetings, no deadlines, no pressure, just good reading! This month’s title is "I Have Some Questions for You" by Rebecca Makkai. Pick up a copy of the book at the Culture & AV service desk.

Enjoy fiction and nonfiction, large print, and audiobooks. Author information, questions to ponder, and readalikes are included with each book.

Book summary:

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past — the family tragedy that marred her adolescence and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. Bodie begins to wonder if she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels "I Have Some Questions for You," "The Great Believers," "The Hundred-Year House," and "The Borrower", as well as the story collection "Music for Wartime."

Review excerpt: "A great accomplishment. ["I Have Some Questions for You"] is at once a campus novel, a piercing reflection on the appeal and ethics of the true crime genre, and a story of Me Too reckoning. It is also the most irresistible literary page-turner I have read in years ... Exquisitely suspenseful and enormously entertaining." —Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe

Readalikes include: "True Story" by Kate Reed Petty, "My Last Innocent Year" by Daisy Alpert Florin, and "The It Girl" by Ruth Ware.

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