I am really excited to be here today with a wonderful novelist, Rebecca Mackay.

Hi, Rebecca.

Hi.

So glad that you were joining us for this book, which I think is going to be a big splash,

and I had such a good time reading.

So your book, your new book, is called, I have some questions for you.

And we are going to talk about that in just a minute.

I want to briefly mention that you have written several previous novels, including The Great

Believers, which is just a wonderful book.

And everybody should go read that book alongside.

I have some questions for you.

It's really just such a treasured, a read of mine on my bookshelf.

And you're also the artistic director of Story Studio Chicago, which is a very cool sounding

writer, training sort of project, right?

Yeah, it is very cool.

It's writers of all levels of experience and all ages, and now we're online too, thanks

to the pandemic, but it was the silver lining.

So yeah, it's a great job.

So I have some questions for you, Rebecca's new novel has some real heat to it.

She describes it as a literary feminist boarding school murder mystery, which I loved.

The protagonist of the novel is Bodhi Kane.

She is a lonely girl from much of the story from Southern Indiana.

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