I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

 I'll start by saying I thought the main plot of The Great Believers (about a group of gay friends in Chicago in the 1980s who were slowly dying of AIDS) was heartbreaking and compelling. But the book had a couple of subplots that didn't hold my attention. This new book has the same problem. The main premise is intriguing. A woman goes back to teach a seminar at the boarding school she attended--where her roommate died under suspicious circumstances. One of her students picks the death--and her belief that the wrong man was convicted--as the subject of her project. Which stirs up all kinds of emotions in the main character (the teacher of the class). But then Makkai throws in a subplot about an internet attack on the teacher's estranged husband and another about the affair she is having with what appears to be a reluctant partner and it makes for a slow slog. I made it halfway through the book then gave up.

Would love to know if anyone else had a more positive impression of this book.