I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel
The riveting new novel — "part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age"— from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers. A stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.
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A compelling read - a pseudo-thriller/whodunnit that attempts to simultaneously address a host of societal issues. Clunky at times (didn’t love the second person narration or the litany of public abuses) but overall readable and thought provoking.
I loved this book. It was a great mystery but so creative. I enjoyed how it was written from one of the characters to another. I also felt like so many of the lines really captured the maturity and the immaturity of high school. The plot was good but secondary to the creative writing and incredible imagery.
I wanted to like this book because I loved Makkai’s other work, “The Great Believers.” But it was too dense with no true progression on the case at hand. I wish we actually heard from the accused’s perspective, along with the victim’s. This book could have been 200 pages shorter.
So wish this story line stayed on point. The author spent too much time with vague suggestions, and comments on social justice that it left the readers searching for a crime scene, a clear motive, and a resolution. A sloppy mess that could have been so much better.
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