I Have Some Questions for You
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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...
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...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 aws. 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 trans xing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable
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characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.
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1.I first watched the video in 2016. I was in bed on my laptop, with headphones, worried Jerome would wake up and I'd have to explain. Down the hall, my children were sleeping. I could have gone and checked on them, felt their warm cheeks and hot breath. I could have smelled my daughter's hair-and maybe the scent of damp lavender and a toddler's scalp would have been enough to send me to sleep.
But a friend I hadn't seen in twenty years had just sent me the link, and so I clicked.
Lerner and Loewe's Camelot. I was both stage manager and tech director. One fixed camera, too close to the orchestra, too far from the unmiked adolescent singers, 1995 VHS quality, some member of the AV club behind the lens. And my God, we knew we weren't great, but we weren't even as good as we thought we were. Whoever uploaded it two decades later, whoever added the notes below with the exact time markers for when Thalia Keith shows up, had also posted the list of cast and crew. Beth Docherty as a petite Guinevere, Sakina John glowing as Morgan le Fay with a crown of gold spikes atop her cornrows, Mike Stiles beautiful and embarrassed as King Arthur. My name is misspelled, but it's there, too.
The curtain call is the last shot where you clearly see Thalia, her dark curls distinguishing her from the washed-out mass. Then most everyone stays onstage to sing "Happy Birthday" to Mrs. Ross, our director, to pull her up from the front row where she sat every night jotting notes. She's so young, something I hadn't registered then.
A few kids exit, return in confusion. Orchestra members hop onstage to sing, Mrs. Ross's husband springs from the audience with flowers, the crew comes on in black shirts and black jeans. I don't appear; I assume I stayed up in the box. It would have been like me to sit it out.
Including the regrouping and singing, the birthday business lasts fifty-two seconds, during which you never see Thalia clearly. In the comments, someone had zoomed in on a
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bit of green dress at one side of the frame, posted side-by-side photos of that smear of color and the dress Thalia wore-first covered in gauze as Nimue, the enchantress, the Lady of the Lake, and then ungauzed, with a simple headdress, as Lady Anne. But there were several green dresses. My friend Carlotta's was one. There's a chance that, by then, Thalia was gone.
Most of the discussion below the video focused on timing. The show was set to begin at 7:00, but we likely started our mercifully abridged version five minutes late. Maybe more. The tape omitted intermission, and there was speculation on how long the intermission of a high school musical would last. Depending on what you believe about these two variables, the show ended sometime between 8:45 and 9:15. I should have known. Once, there would have been a binder with my meticulous notes. But no one ever asked for it.
The window the medical examiner allowed for Thalia's time of death was 8:00 p.m. to midnight, with the beginning of the slot curtailed by the musical-the reason the show's exact end time had become the subject of infinite fascination online.
I came here from YouTube, one commenter had written in 2015, linking to a separate video. Watch this. It PROVES they bungled the case. The timeline makes no sense.
Someone else wrote: Wrong guy in prison bc of racist cops in schools pocket.
And below that: Welcome to Tinfoil Hat Central! Focus your energies on an ACTUAL UNSOLVED CASE.
Watching the video twenty-one years after the fact, the memory that dislodged from my brain's dark corners was looking up lusty in the library dictionary with my friend Fran, who was in the chorus. To quiet our giggling about "The Lusty Month of May," Mrs. Ross had announced that "lusty simply means vibrant. You're welcome to look it up." But what did Mrs. Ross know about lust? Lust was for the young, not married drama teachers. But ("Holy apeshit," as Fran would ha
Most of the discussion below the video focused on timing. The show was set to begin at 7:00, but we likely started our mercifully abridged version five minutes late. Maybe more. The tape omitted intermission, and there was speculation on how long the intermission of a high school musical would last. Depending on what you believe about these two variables, the show ended sometime between 8:45 and 9:15. I should have known. Once, there would have been a binder with my meticulous notes. But no one ever asked for it.
The window the medical examiner allowed for Thalia's time of death was 8:00 p.m. to midnight, with the beginning of the slot curtailed by the musical-the reason the show's exact end time had become the subject of infinite fascination online.
I came here from YouTube, one commenter had written in 2015, linking to a separate video. Watch this. It PROVES they bungled the case. The timeline makes no sense.
Someone else wrote: Wrong guy in prison bc of racist cops in schools pocket.
And below that: Welcome to Tinfoil Hat Central! Focus your energies on an ACTUAL UNSOLVED CASE.
Watching the video twenty-one years after the fact, the memory that dislodged from my brain's dark corners was looking up lusty in the library dictionary with my friend Fran, who was in the chorus. To quiet our giggling about "The Lusty Month of May," Mrs. Ross had announced that "lusty simply means vibrant. You're welcome to look it up." But what did Mrs. Ross know about lust? Lust was for the young, not married drama teachers. But ("Holy apeshit," as Fran would ha
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Autoren-Porträt von Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai s last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rebecca Makkai
- 2024, 464 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 0593490169
- ISBN-13: 9780593490167
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Thought-provoking, deeply unsettling and undeniably riveting...A fully immersive, addictive whodunit. San Francisco ChronicleA spellbinding work...[Makkai s] prose is lean yet lush, with short, incantatory chapters and sentences as taut as piano wire. New York Times Book Review
Enthralling...Rich in incident and alive with expressive imagery. Wall Street Journal
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
[I Have Some Questions for You] embraces the intricate plotting and emotional heft that made [Makkai s] previous novel, The Great Believers, a Pulitzer finalist...Makkai sharply conveys the insidiousness of misogyny...[and] deftly explores how remembrance can melt into reverie...Her patient, evocative character work prevents Omar and Thalia from becoming types...The result is not a book that leers at a discrete and unfathomable act of violence but one that investigates... two stolen lives. The New Yorker
Vastly entertaining . . . both a thickly-plotted, character-driven mystery and a stylishly self-aware novel of ideas . . . in a twist worthy of Poe, Makkai suggests that the truth alone may not set you free or lay spirits to rest. Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
Bewitching. Vanity Fair
[An] addictive page-turner. O Quarterly
As we race through [I Have Some Questions for You], we re pulled into playing much the same role as Bodie does: trying to piece together the various stories, eagerly awaiting a verdict . . . [Makkai] leaves us to fill in the gaps, to conjure the lurid details from scraps and rumors trapped in a quest, her agile book reminds us, that should always leave us second-guessing.
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The Atlantic
A critique of the true-crime obsession and its inherent voyeurism, refracted through everyone s new favorite storytelling device, the podcast . . . This sense of collective responsibility is the kind of nuance that doesn t often emerge from the true-crime content mills. In the world of I Have Some Questions for You, however, there s an insistent hope that the truth still matters, even when it s complicated that the right thing might happen despite the near-impossibility of justice in our society. The Nation
Makkai s powerhouse novel has all the draw and momentum of the wildly entertaining mystery that it is, but lurking behind the plot is a series of escalating existential questions about trauma, memory, and the ever-shifting terrain of the past . . . Makkai brings to the story a vertiginous sensation of falling again and again into new doubts and desires, one that brings to mind Hitchcock at his best and forces the reader constantly to double back and wonder where the story has taken them, really. I Have Some Questions For You is a smart, sophisticated mystery, crafted with verve. CrimeReads, The Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far)
Somehow, Makkai has managed to pull off a novel that s simultaneously about the unsettling popularity of true crime, racial inequities in the criminal justice system, post-#MeToo gender politics, 1990s pop nostalgia, and boarding schools, all without ever feeling exploitive or opportunistic. It s gripping, laugh-out-loud funny, and, most of all, completely honest. Publishers Weekly, The Best Books of 2023
A sleekly plotted literary murder mystery Makkai has written a complicated whodunit fueled by feminist rage as Bodie relentlessly interrogates her past and recalls the countless murders of girls and women whose stories have been all but lost in our collective memory. Associated Press
I Have Some Questions for You asks us to examine many things: high school, the 90s, privilege, justice, sexual harassment, what we owe the dead. Like the true crime podcasts it s modeled on, it s addictive, well told and a little bit unsettling. Los Angeles Times
Gripping...a damn good story...[Makkai turns] abstractions of personal, social, and cultural politics into a practical, deeply felt and occasionally even thrilling reality. Star-Tribune
Makkai combines skilled storytelling with abundant human insight. [I Have Some Questions for You] is so well-plotted and thought-provoking that readers may struggle with conflicting impulses to keep turning the pages to find out what happens next or to stop and think about what it all means. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
[Makkai s] writing is witty and knife-sharp. Condé Nast Traveler
Hits all the high notes, complete with at least a few revelations you won't see coming. Good Housekeeping
[I Have Some Questions for You] calls into question our relationships to memory and power while also challenging readers to reconsider how we think about race, sex, and class. Time
Makkai has crafted an un-put-downable, captivating boarding school mystery novel with podcasting, teaching, race, divorce, parenting, professional drive, and teen dynamics as undercurrents . . . The writing in this book is absolutely A+ sensational. Pure perfection. Zibby Owens, GoodMorningAmerica.com
Makkai s sleek, beautifully crafted prose and sharp sense of character make I Have Some Questions for You a pleasure to read even as its twisting plot propels us into darkness. Tampa Bay Times
[A] deft murder-mystery . . . Makkai s poignant mediation on memory and loss is distinguished by clear prose [and] memorable (and flawed) characters. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Perfectly illustrate[s] the present mood. Dallas Voice
The Secret History meets Serial [in this] modern campus novel. Lit Hub
Makkai s triumph of a novel mixes clever storytelling with an exploration of consent, control and memory . . . satisfying and cleverly multi-layered . . . combines the smarts of literary fiction with the thrills of a whodunnit, topped with all the divertissements of the best boarding school-set dramas. Financial Times (London)
[A] skillfully crafted academic mystery. PopSugar
Dark academia meets state of America in this brilliant, original novel. Daily Mail
An enthralling mystery, an interrogation of the past, an entrancing campus novel, I Have Some Questions for You is a propulsive page-turner. B&N Reads
Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery haunting and hard to put down. Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House
I ve been waiting years for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. Makkai has written the book of the season. Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
Both a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, I Have Some Questions for You narrates one woman s interrogation of her own past while in turn posing difficult questions directly to its reader: about sex, power, privilege, and the ambient violence of contemporary American life. What a feat. Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
Some books are so universal that they feel bizarrely specific: I read I Have Some Questions for You as if it was written just for me, but I can't imagine who wouldn't love it. Timely, provocative, nuanced, generous Rebecca Makkai astonishes once again with the perfect combination of brains and heart. Laura Lippmann, author of Dream Girl
Rebecca Makkai s extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in I Have Some Questions for You, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery and an urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class in a New England boarding school. I loved walking alongside narrator Bodie Kane angry, obsessive, struggling with her own traumatic memories in her imperfect attempts to reckon with a past she longs to leave behind. Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine
One of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai s writing is her absolutely engaging voice; reading her books feels like hearing a well-told story by a longtime friend. This book through the voice of its beautifully complex narrator, Bodie Kane brings readers along on a journey they won't forget. Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River
Clever and deeply thoughtful . . . a deliciously complex reckoning . . . [I Have Some Questions for You] is sure to be a hit. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A thought-provoking and delicious tale of life and death and justice that very well may have gone sideways. Library Journal (starred review)
Engrossing . . . a well-plotted indictment of systemic racism and misogyny craftily disguised as a thriller and beautifully constructed to make its points. BookPage (starred review)
A beguiling campus novel . . . Chilled as the deep New England winters during which it takes place and twisty with the slowly found and then suddenly illuminated branches of memory, Makkai's rich, winding story dazzles from cover to cover. Booklist (starred review)
Every year, I look for the novels that truly respect their victims, and think carefully about the tropes of true crime; for 2023, [I Have Some Questions for You] is that novel. Molly Odintz, CrimeReads
Makkai's novel takes on some of the defining issues of its time [...] without battering readers with them. Instead, Makkai carefully winds her themes around her story's scaffolding, which strengthens her masterly plot even more. Shelf Awareness
[Makkai adds] intriguing layers of complication . . . Well plotted, well written, and well designed. Kirkus Reviews
A critique of the true-crime obsession and its inherent voyeurism, refracted through everyone s new favorite storytelling device, the podcast . . . This sense of collective responsibility is the kind of nuance that doesn t often emerge from the true-crime content mills. In the world of I Have Some Questions for You, however, there s an insistent hope that the truth still matters, even when it s complicated that the right thing might happen despite the near-impossibility of justice in our society. The Nation
Makkai s powerhouse novel has all the draw and momentum of the wildly entertaining mystery that it is, but lurking behind the plot is a series of escalating existential questions about trauma, memory, and the ever-shifting terrain of the past . . . Makkai brings to the story a vertiginous sensation of falling again and again into new doubts and desires, one that brings to mind Hitchcock at his best and forces the reader constantly to double back and wonder where the story has taken them, really. I Have Some Questions For You is a smart, sophisticated mystery, crafted with verve. CrimeReads, The Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far)
Somehow, Makkai has managed to pull off a novel that s simultaneously about the unsettling popularity of true crime, racial inequities in the criminal justice system, post-#MeToo gender politics, 1990s pop nostalgia, and boarding schools, all without ever feeling exploitive or opportunistic. It s gripping, laugh-out-loud funny, and, most of all, completely honest. Publishers Weekly, The Best Books of 2023
A sleekly plotted literary murder mystery Makkai has written a complicated whodunit fueled by feminist rage as Bodie relentlessly interrogates her past and recalls the countless murders of girls and women whose stories have been all but lost in our collective memory. Associated Press
I Have Some Questions for You asks us to examine many things: high school, the 90s, privilege, justice, sexual harassment, what we owe the dead. Like the true crime podcasts it s modeled on, it s addictive, well told and a little bit unsettling. Los Angeles Times
Gripping...a damn good story...[Makkai turns] abstractions of personal, social, and cultural politics into a practical, deeply felt and occasionally even thrilling reality. Star-Tribune
Makkai combines skilled storytelling with abundant human insight. [I Have Some Questions for You] is so well-plotted and thought-provoking that readers may struggle with conflicting impulses to keep turning the pages to find out what happens next or to stop and think about what it all means. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
[Makkai s] writing is witty and knife-sharp. Condé Nast Traveler
Hits all the high notes, complete with at least a few revelations you won't see coming. Good Housekeeping
[I Have Some Questions for You] calls into question our relationships to memory and power while also challenging readers to reconsider how we think about race, sex, and class. Time
Makkai has crafted an un-put-downable, captivating boarding school mystery novel with podcasting, teaching, race, divorce, parenting, professional drive, and teen dynamics as undercurrents . . . The writing in this book is absolutely A+ sensational. Pure perfection. Zibby Owens, GoodMorningAmerica.com
Makkai s sleek, beautifully crafted prose and sharp sense of character make I Have Some Questions for You a pleasure to read even as its twisting plot propels us into darkness. Tampa Bay Times
[A] deft murder-mystery . . . Makkai s poignant mediation on memory and loss is distinguished by clear prose [and] memorable (and flawed) characters. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Perfectly illustrate[s] the present mood. Dallas Voice
The Secret History meets Serial [in this] modern campus novel. Lit Hub
Makkai s triumph of a novel mixes clever storytelling with an exploration of consent, control and memory . . . satisfying and cleverly multi-layered . . . combines the smarts of literary fiction with the thrills of a whodunnit, topped with all the divertissements of the best boarding school-set dramas. Financial Times (London)
[A] skillfully crafted academic mystery. PopSugar
Dark academia meets state of America in this brilliant, original novel. Daily Mail
An enthralling mystery, an interrogation of the past, an entrancing campus novel, I Have Some Questions for You is a propulsive page-turner. B&N Reads
Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery haunting and hard to put down. Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House
I ve been waiting years for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. Makkai has written the book of the season. Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
Both a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, I Have Some Questions for You narrates one woman s interrogation of her own past while in turn posing difficult questions directly to its reader: about sex, power, privilege, and the ambient violence of contemporary American life. What a feat. Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
Some books are so universal that they feel bizarrely specific: I read I Have Some Questions for You as if it was written just for me, but I can't imagine who wouldn't love it. Timely, provocative, nuanced, generous Rebecca Makkai astonishes once again with the perfect combination of brains and heart. Laura Lippmann, author of Dream Girl
Rebecca Makkai s extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in I Have Some Questions for You, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery and an urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class in a New England boarding school. I loved walking alongside narrator Bodie Kane angry, obsessive, struggling with her own traumatic memories in her imperfect attempts to reckon with a past she longs to leave behind. Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine
One of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai s writing is her absolutely engaging voice; reading her books feels like hearing a well-told story by a longtime friend. This book through the voice of its beautifully complex narrator, Bodie Kane brings readers along on a journey they won't forget. Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River
Clever and deeply thoughtful . . . a deliciously complex reckoning . . . [I Have Some Questions for You] is sure to be a hit. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A thought-provoking and delicious tale of life and death and justice that very well may have gone sideways. Library Journal (starred review)
Engrossing . . . a well-plotted indictment of systemic racism and misogyny craftily disguised as a thriller and beautifully constructed to make its points. BookPage (starred review)
A beguiling campus novel . . . Chilled as the deep New England winters during which it takes place and twisty with the slowly found and then suddenly illuminated branches of memory, Makkai's rich, winding story dazzles from cover to cover. Booklist (starred review)
Every year, I look for the novels that truly respect their victims, and think carefully about the tropes of true crime; for 2023, [I Have Some Questions for You] is that novel. Molly Odintz, CrimeReads
Makkai's novel takes on some of the defining issues of its time [...] without battering readers with them. Instead, Makkai carefully winds her themes around her story's scaffolding, which strengthens her masterly plot even more. Shelf Awareness
[Makkai adds] intriguing layers of complication . . . Well plotted, well written, and well designed. Kirkus Reviews
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