A true-crime podcaster returns to teach a course at the elite boarding school she attended, where her roommate was murdered decades earlier, and finds herself reopening the case — and the question of whether the man convicted of the killing was guilty at all.
Books mentioned in I Have Some Questions for You (5)
Beloved by Toni Morrison: “She grabs her backpack (reported contents: hairbrush, lipstick, tampons, calculus book, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Granby-issued weekly planner, assorted pens and scrunchies, mini deodorant, dorm room key), slips past the other changing girls, exits via the backstage fire escape.”
Our Town by Thornton Wilder: “Maybe she could spare me to work October Follies when she couldn't spare her juniors and seniors, already busy building the set for Our Town.”
Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman: “Thalia was packing, her back to me, and I flipped to the Little Shop of Horrors page and signed my name—only my name—under the cast and crew photo that included us both.”
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: ““1938 was the year that War of the Worlds—” I started, but Alder slapped the table, grinned, pointed at me. “Yes!” he said. “You get it!””
Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe: “Flagged by the verifying agent as extensively and centrally referenced throughout the book (the school's musical production, performed the night of the murder) but not scored highly enough by the detector to appear as its own top-200 candidate.”