Film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane, returns to her old boarding school of Granby to teach a couple of classes for two weeks. Being back in the familiar grounds brings back memories of her time there, and how she felt like she didn’t fit in. The wrong clothes, little money, quiet and closed-off, Bodie eventually found a friendship group that she carried into adulthood. But her junior year roommate didn’t get to grow up. Thalia Keith was murdered their senior year, and Bodie starts to […]

Bodie Kane, a film professor and co-host of a popular Old Hollywood podcast, returns to the campus of the boarding school she graduated from over two decades ago to guest lecture a couple of classes. When one of her students reveals an obsession with a murder that occurred while Bodie was a student, she reluctantly agrees to help her investigate the case. Thalia Keith, whom Bodie briefly roomed with, was killed after the opening night of a school production of Camelot. Her skull was bashed […]

This book was heartbreaking and beautiful, just as you might assume a finalist for the National Book Award would be. It was an incredibly well written story about love and friendship, told across decades. One story line takes place starting in 1985, when a group of men – friends and lovers in Boystown in Chicago – are creating their own memorial service for their friend, Nico – the first death from AIDS that has hit this small community (but not, unfortunately, the last). The other […]