Makkai, author of 'The Great Believers,' explains why her followup, 'I Have Questions For You,' tackles podcasting, murder and boarding school.
Rebecca Makkai on her story of the AIDS era, ‘The Great Believers’
Taken to an extreme, an amateur detective’s obsession becomes so acute that it warps their thinking — everything seems to feed into a single narrative. Simple investigations and irrelevant facts turn into webs of conspiracy. That happens a little bit to Bodie, who turns her suspicions on a teacher who left the school. It also happened to me.
, which she attended as a day student and where her husband, whom she met later in college, has taught for two decades.in movies and on TV that are so off,” she said. “Partly it’s the romanticization, the dark academia vibe that can go a little cartoonish — where it’s always October, the leaves are always changing.
As her past unspools, we learn Bodie was roommates with the young woman who was killed. And she is a little withholding, which gives readers something to chew on. How much is Bodie saying, and what isn’t she? Makkai skillfully weaves the past through the present with remembered scenes and conversations. It turns out that popular kids like the murdered roommate subjected Bodie to cruelties she’d rather forget.
Of all the situations Makkai had to imagine herself into, an all-consuming fascination with characters, timelines and potential plot twists may have been the easiest.
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