Review: A boarding school whodunit fueled by feminist rage
Associated Press“I Have Some Questions for You,” by Rebecca Makkai Take a pinch of “Prep,” the boarding school drama by Curtis Sittenfeld. What you get is Rebecca Makkai’s “I Have Some Questions for You,” a sleekly plotted literary murder mystery that garnered rave advance reviews and seems destined to be turned into a Netflix miniseries. Makkai, a lyrical writer whose last book was the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist “The Great Believers,” has gone all-in on the former with intricate plot twists and a major red herring. But most of the characters are straight out of central casting: rumpled teachers, rich and spoiled preppies, and at the center, the problematic narrator, Bodie Kane, who describes herself as a “sometime college professor with a lauded podcast, a woman who could make a meal from farmers’ market ingredients.” When the novel begins, Bodie has been invited back to the elite New England boarding school she attended in the 1990s as a scholarship student to teach a course on podcasting.
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