Left Bank Books presents Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award Finalist Rebecca Makkai, who will discuss her highly anticipated, riveting new novel I Have Some Questions for You at the Ethical Society on March 23rd at 7pm! Makkai will be in conversation with Left Bank Books' Shane Mullen.

Please purchase a ticket to attend the event in person or virtually. Books may be picked up ahead of the event at Left Bank Books or can be picked up at the venue on March 23rd.* Order additional copies of I Have Some Questions for You from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!

Makkai will personalize and sign additional copies for sale from Left Bank Books.If you are unable to make it in person, leave a personalization note in your order.

*Unsigned books will be available for pick up at Left Bank Books on February 21st or after. You will bring this copy of the book to the Ethical Society on March 23rd for Rebecca Makkai to sign. If you do not pick up your book ahead of time, it will be available for you to pick up at check in at the Ethical Society on March 23rd.

**ABOUT THE BOOK**
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by TIME, NPR, USA Today, Elle, Newsweek, Salon, Bustle, AARP, The Millions, Good Housekeeping, and more

The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers

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 murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers--needs--to let sleeping dogs lie.
But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is 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.
In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman's reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.

**ABOUT THE AUTHOR**
Rebecca Makkai's last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime--four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

**ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BOOK**

"I've been waiting years for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. Makkai has written the book of the season." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost

"Both a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, I Have Some Questions for You narrates one woman's interrogation of her own past while in turn posing difficult questions directly to its reader: about sex, power, privilege, and the ambient violence of contemporary American life. What a feat." --Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind

"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery--haunting and hard to put down." --Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House

"Some books are so universal that they feel bizarrely specific: I read I Have Some Questions for You as if it was written just for me, but I can't imagine who wouldn't love it. Timely, provocative, nuanced, generous--Rebecca Makkai astonishes once again with the perfect combination of brains and heart." --Laura Lippmann, author of Dream Girl

"Rebecca Makkai's extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in I Have Some Questions for You, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery and an urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class in a New England boarding school. I loved walking alongside narrator Bodie Kane--angry, obsessive, struggling with her own traumatic memories--in her imperfect attempts to reckon with a past she longs to leave behind." --Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine