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Ask Better Questions: a conversation with author Rebecca Makkai

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In this episode of The First Fifty Pages, Kelsey and Jenn discuss the author's latest literary feminist boarding school mystery, I Have Some Questions for You— a book that explores the importance of our memories and the impact of time on our own individual stories.  If your present self could reckon with the past, what would you try to resolve? 

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