I Have Some Questions for You : Discussion Thread

[Trisha]

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.

[Trisha]

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[Julie]

Found it very convoluted and all over the place

[Elsa]

Julie wrote: "Found it very convoluted and all over the place"

I was thinking of getting this one but the summary didn't quite convince me, and now that it being confusing and all over the place probably going to pass on it.

[Trisha]

20 chapters

I'm liking it so far. it's not too different from other stories about a boarding school murder while the MC is in high school and then going back as an adult and seeing the murder (and possible suspects) with new adult eyes.

I think the part that is making it different is the Podcast part to it

(view spoiler)[ I find her marriage fascinating. I love that they are making it work and they both seem happier. I wonder what's going on with this boyfriend of hers, though. sounds like he's still very very married. I don't know that his wife knows he's thinking about divorce. I wonder if he's lying to her

Interesting that now she thinks it could be a teacher. There is such an odd, tight timeline and the different bathing suit and forensics are really weird additions.

I also love that she recognized that she shouldn't be the one to do the Podcast. I love that she's letting the student do it (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

40 chapters

(view spoiler)[ she's still really talking to the teacher so it still really feels like she believes it was him
but wow, Omar really had a tight schedule - he put himself in the building at the time of the murder and he was rushing away. I wonder if he saw something

and WOW! she really pointed a finger at the teacher to the kids themselves and they barely seemed to register it.

Yeah, I figured her relationship with that other guy was over. I wonder what's really going on there (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

Through Part 1

(view spoiler)[ wow, the drama unfolding for her kind of husband and her is really. . .frustrating? sad? it's definitely not good but it's such a gray area. I'm really hazy as to how I feel about it but her jumping in? maybe not such a good idea. she should have laid low

I'm really hoping, now that I'm so invested on this being the teacher, that this really is a man who did this. I really don't want to find out Fran or Anne did it. that would just break my heart (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

I'm finally done!

I actually loved this one. it was a little drawn out but I thought it was good (view spoiler)[ I love how she kept mentioning all the ways women are hurt/hidden/murdered/stalked. Every time I wanted to hold my breath. it's just so true

and I have to admit, I never even thought of the boyfriend because he'd had such a solid alibi. I can't believe he got them to lie for him - so cleanly - for so long. because of course he was never fingered but Omar was. *sigh* so good because it was so true to life. of course they aren't charging him and Omar still has to fight to get out. It's so heartbreaking but realistic (hide spoiler)]

[Amy]

I’m listening to it now and enjoying it. I’d started to read it, but wasn’t engaged. Julia Whalen is a fantastic reader, as usual.

[Trisha]

oooh I bet this one is great as an audiobook! Can't wait to see what you think overall!