I have some questions for you, by Rebecca Makkai

Almost 25 years after graduating, film academic and podcaster Bodie Kane has returned to her East Coast boarding school Granby. With her troubled and tragic background in Indiana , she was a misfit at the preppy school but used it as a step to a better life. Ostensibly there to teach a couple of short courses, Bodie finds herself digging into a tragedy that happened in her Senior year. A student was murdered, but was the right man convicted? The ‘you’ Bodie has questions for is a former teacher, whom she has come to realise had an inappropriate relationship with the dead girl. This second person narrative is an odd device, which jars at times but becomes clearer as the book concludes. While stirring up a hornet’s nest at the school Bodie also has to deal with dramas that affect her failed marriage, current ambiguous relationship and her work. It turns out she needs to reassess a lot of what she thought she understood about her time and her peers at Granby. There is a lot going on in this book, which weaves together a twisty whodunnit with themes of memory and loss, true crime podcasting as entertainment and alternative policing and the frustration of trying to achieve justice. Throughout the whole is a thrumming anger at the constant and seemingly acceptable levels of violence against women that permeates the whole of society. Bodie is a deeply flawed and compelling everywoman, who has some very important questions for everyone, including herself.