
A long list of praiseful adjectives — sharp, twisty, enthralling, cerebral, surprising — would serve as a review of Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions For You. However, that approach would fail to communicate just how labyrinthine, well constructed and multilayered the narrative is.
In fact, this review will probably fail as well given the word count constraint and the novel's 435 pages of unrelenting developments, memories and possibilities, but at least it will offer a larger view of the universe, characters and themes Makkai has woven together so well in this novel.