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Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You

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 flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there?

Week of February 19, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of February 19th include THE COLLECTOR, a stunning thriller from Daniel Silva in which legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting --- but soon he finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West; I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU by Rebecca Makkai, 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; Lynne Olson's EMPRESS OF THE NILE, the remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam; and SINK, Joseph Earl Thomas' wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age story about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.