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I Have Some Questions for You
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[BWF] I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 2 stars
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For their podcast project, her class wants to revisit the murder of one of Bodie's fellow students. In fact not just a fellow student, but Bodie's roommate.
The story really meanders through a bunch of timelines and far too many characters to keep track of. Through the course of the book, the narrator mentally accuses every single male in the roommate's life of murder, never really exonerating any of them. She also relegates most of the men in her personal life to a similar fate. I just don't buy into the idea that every man is an abuser in disguise.
And as someone born and raised in the midwest, I found the narrator's endless embarrassment about coming from the midwest to be insulting. It didn't impact the story or move the narrative along, it was just gratuitous shade.
And finally worst of all (view spoiler)[they don't end up solving the crime, getting the innocent man exonerated, nothing. (hide spoiler)]
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