Bodie Kane

The narrator and protagonist of I Have Some Questions for You is Bodie Kane, a successful podcast host and occasional film professor who lives primarily in Los Angeles. Bodie grew up in Indiana; when she was a child, her brother, Ace, accidentally killed their father after pushing him off a deck. Several years later, Ace “either jumped off the roof of a shoe store or fell off” (42-43). After Bodie’s mother was hospitalized for depression, a Mormon family—the Robesons—raised Bodie and eventually paid for her tuition at the Granby School, a boarding school in New Hampshire. Bodie’s time at Granby was largely unhappy. She felt alienated from the wealthy, privileged student body. After her freshman year, she made an “abrupt” (103) transformation to a style she calls “goth grunge” (103). She became close friends with Fran, Carlotta, and Geoff. During her junior year, Bodie and...