Blah Blah Book Club: August 2025 meetup

This month, we will be reading and discussing I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai, the latest release from the 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, from our International Crime category.

BLURB - 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 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletics coach, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefers -needs - to let sleeping dogs lie.

But when The Granby School invites her back to teach a two-week course, Bodie finds herself 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? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn't as much of an outsider at Granby as she'd thought. If, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case. (448 pages)

Happy reading!