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 seasonIn this
addictive page-turner, Makkai skewers how and why missing girls become media commodities - Oprah Daily
This is sure to be a hit - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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 of storytellingOne of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai is her absolutely engaging written 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 forgetRebecca 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
Both wide-angle observer and genius provocateur, Bodie is so real readers will expect to find her in their own yearbooks. 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
Everything was propulsive but also meandering in a way that had a vice-like control.
My favourite book I've read this year, what an absolute triumph
