The long shadows of a classmate’s murder haunts Bodie Kane decades later, when she returns to her New Hampshire boarding school to teach a short course on podcasting. A Black instructor was wrongfully convicted and Bodie’s students want to look under previously ignored rocks for new leads. Makkai uses the murder of teenaged student Thalia Keith as a stand-in for the many cases, new and old, where women are consistently ignored, their voices stilled, the abusers free to strike again. At times these instances feel a bit forced. Yet they’re also the ones that lend the novel its devastating heft.
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