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I Have Some Questions for You
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Julia Whelan
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES
'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER
'Impressive and complex' GUARDIAN
'Addictive' OPRAH DAILY
The riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
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 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletics coach, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefers-needs-to let sleeping dogs lie.
But when The Granby School invites her back to teach a two-week course, Bodie finds herself 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.
One of the most acclaimed contemporary American writers, Rebecca Makkai reinvents herself with each of her brilliant novels. Both a transfixing mystery and a deeply felt examination of one woman's reckoning with her past, I Have Some Questions for You is her finest achievement yet.
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- Ally
- 09-07-2023
Completely gripping
This book possessed me like a fugue state - at turns disturbing, funny and brilliantly written.
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- Kitty
- 19-03-2023
I have some questions for you
A very cleverly, and thoughtful book. I listened to it in one sitting. Fantastic Fantastic!
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- Melissa mason
- 28-03-2023
SO GOOD
Such an immersive, complex murder mystery. I adored this book. The plot twisted and turned to the very end and also plenty of searing observations about outrage culture, the power of the internet and social age, etc.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-03-2023
kind of unsatisfying
I liked the direction the story took and there were a few interesting surprises, but in the end it did not answer my questions. maybe that's the point
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- Amanda
- 25-06-2023
an incredibly important book
I found it interesting that I read this just after watching Alias Grace on Netflix, and I recall a quote, though I can't find it now, about how tragic it is that women's lives are only interesting when they are suffering. There are a lot of themes that run parallel, both in the violence done to women and lack of belief in victims.
Tackling issues such as race, class, entitlement, sexism, abuse, victim blaming, cancel culture, the Me Too movement, "not all men", teenage gossip, family angst and damage to reputations all in one book might seem like a lot, and it is, but it's done so very well and in such a way that you can, in an intellectual way, identify with the characters in their various positions throughout the story.
That's not to say that you can justify people's bad behaviour, but the mitigating circumstances and intimate knowledge of some characters back stories provide shades of light and dark that show that there can't always be a "correct" opinion when viewing one part of a story or one single action a person has done.
As a fan of true crime and true crime podcasts, I found the million tiny references to cases very familiar and the way they were used was both illuminating and heart breaking. The author has cited so many familiar cases that it almost becomes overwhelming, and the lack of naming names demonstrates how easy it is for all these instances to blur into one awful miasma of violence against women, and the continued failure of the justice system to either prosecute the perpetrator or investigate it properly at the outset.
There were many cases that I'm familiar with that were adapted into the fictionalised crime in the story, which is part of the reason why it felt so real and hurt so much at the end. Humans are monsters and monsters are human, and we all have the capacity to do terrible things to each other, but also the ability to right those wrongs, and our choices, really, are not just our own. Our choices impact each other, more than we can know
This is such a deeply important book, and so well crafted.
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- Lucinda Crimson
- 27-08-2023
Riveting!
Interesting, contemporary writing and intelligent performance. I listened to this over a few weeks and really enjoyed it.
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- michele taylor
- 02-03-2023
Compelling from Start to Finish
Rebecca Makkai does it again, absolutely Brilliant. Totally engaging narration. True Crime Podcast meets college life. The slippery slope of memory
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- brigid kelly
- 12-04-2023
This is just great
This is so good and the narration by Julia Whelan makes it sing. At times it can seem tedious but every inch contributes to a good story written with skill and cheekiness.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-04-2023
Gripping
Couldn’t stop listening to this! Topical and galvanising. Narrator does a superb job. Highly recommend!
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- Anonymous User
- 26-06-2023
Unique!
I struggled just a little to get into the story in the first section, but the rest made up for it!
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