Bodie Kane, a successful true crime podcaster, is invited back to her high school to teach a course. One of her students decides to investigate the death of Bodie's roommate, Thalia Keith, a beautiful rich white girl who died on campus, and the subsequent conviction of Omar Evans, a black athletic trainer employed by the fancy boarding school. As Bodie retraces her memories, she wonders about her innocence and complicity in perhaps rushing to a wrongful conviction.

QUESTIONS is a fast-paced and binge-able mystery that examines racism, classism, and sexism with a story too familiar to America. Death of a wealthy white girl, the conviction of the only Black man on the scene, and an institute built to uphold white supremacy and the patriarchy.

I particularly enjoy Makkai's reflections on connecting irl cases involving violence against women and wrongful convictions and how she seamlessly weaves Bodie's story and reality. QUESTIONS also explores the #metoo movement, the agency young women have or don't have in relationships, cancel culture, the "power" of the Internet, etc.

True to its title, QUESTIONS is a mystery that leaves more questions for the readers than answers. The ending especially isn't what I was expecting; while I (think I) understand what Makkai is trying to depict, I wanted just a bit more impact from the final chapters. Nonetheless, QUESTIONS is an unputdownable story: I finished the 10-hour audiobook in a day (at 2.3x speed of course