Summary

Bodie Kane watches footage from a 1995 musical put on by her alma mater, the Granby School. She focuses on Thalia Keith, who was murdered in the spring of their senior year. Thalia died sometime after the end of this production, while many of her friends were at a party. Bodie addresses her former musical director, Denny Bloch, and notes that “it’s been convenient for you” (7) that Thalia’s death attracted excessive, often absurd media attention.

Bodie hosts a successful podcast centering on the history of women in film. She maintains a “desperate, long-distance affair” (9) with a law professor named Yahav. Bodie and her husband, Jerome, are separated but remain cordial; they live in abutting duplexes in Los Angeles and raise their children together. In 2018, Bodie returns to New Hampshire to teach a two-week course at Granby. She remembers her own...