The Rabbit's Paw Book Reviews

This is more than a story about a mystery. It’s a beautifully written depiction of life at a small boarding school, a microcosm in the woods. What happened there, amongst the students, was not beautiful, but the way Bodie Kane looks back on some important events, as an adult, is well expressed. Much of the novel is written to someone offstage, a character the reader will learn much more about along the way. Bodie, a successful podcaster, has returned to the Granby School, the boarding school where she spent her vulnerable teen-aged years, for a few weeks to teach a class. When she asks her students to choose a topic to investigate for their own podcast projects, one of them expresses the interest  to delve into a murder that happened at the school while Bodie was a student there, decades ago. It’s a crime for which a man named Omar is serving time, and also a controversial subject matter, since there are many people who believe the investigation was flawed, and conspiracy theories ...

  This is just a quick review of a book that was not a Netgalley read for me, but I did obtain a free copy for subscribing to Simon & Shuster's Off the Shelf newsletter.  The only catch? These freebies are available on the Glose application or website only.  Personally, I do not recommend reading books this way. (For entertainment, read the reviews on Google Play.) This is a long book that took me even longer than usual because--Glose. Glose aside, I'm really glad to have had the incentive to read this book. ________________________ Rachel Kushner's writing is awesome. Her prose pulls me in so well that I can keep reading the finest, most stunning details. I didn't always know where this story was going, but that's because it's more of a becoming than a story. There are many stories included in these pages, but the main protagonist is a strong young woman coming into her own, against a backdrop of a burgeoning woman's movement and a changing global clim...