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March 2024: Coming of Age > [BWF] I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 2 stars

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Sue | 2718 comments This was an interesting concept. Bodie Kane is a film instructor and successful podcaster who ends up teaching a film and podcasting class at her former New England high school boarding school.

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)

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