The novel opens by introducing the protagonist, Bodie Kane, a thriving professor who is comfortable in overlooking her past nasty experiences. Kane's past was marred by family tragedies, miserable years in high school, disturbing adolescent years, and the atrocious slaughter of her best friend and roommate, Thalia Keith. A Black man called Evans Omar, the school's athletic trainer, was accused and convicted of Thalia's murder. However, there is an endless debate that Evans is not the real killer of Thalia, and he was wrongly imprisoned.
Granby school requests Bodie to come and teach a podcasting course, which she is proficient in Hollywood. Bodie is happy to return to her former high school, where she graduated in 1995, but that takes her down memory lane. One of the topics Bodie decides to teach her class includes the brutal murder of her best friend and roommate, Thalia, during her senior year in school. Bodie recalls that after the murder of Thalia, the school phoned the police, and they came and immediately arrested Evans Omar as the main suspect. However, there was no proper investigation because Evans was convicted of a crime he never committed.
Bodie also narrates about her troubled childhood. Shockingly, Bodie explains how she was connected to a predatory male teacher in high school. Bodie suspects that this predatory teacher was responsible for the murder of Thalia because she refused to give in to his sexual demands.
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai is an irresistible fictional novel that conceptualizes sexual violence against women. In society, women and young girls are victims of sexual violence. Bodie's collective memory of her troubled childhood shows girls' challenges in a male-dominated society.
