In the novel as it continues in my imagination, public pressure has increased, Omar had gotten a new trial and he has finally been released. After a settlement from the state of NH, he gets his technological bearings, moves to a state with fewer memories, (Massachusetts, I think) and starts his own podcast, "Exonerated" - interviewing one by one the hundreds of falsely imprisoned and later freed formerly incarcerated men and women. At some point, Bodie is a guest on his podcast, (maybe a producer of it?) [I don't dare look up whether there is already such a podcast - there probably is, but for the sake of this conjecture, let's say I came up with it.] As a formerly (but totally guilty) incarcerated person, I need Omar to be free, at least in my head.
Thanks for answering my question! To your "straight face" comment - I think it certainly COULD have worked as a more traditional thriller vs. realist novel, but I found the path you chose to be infinitely more interesting.
I spent a good part of the novel convinced Fran did it! It might have been thinking about the A key mayhem at a certain boarding school. This made me unnecessarily nervous whenever Bodie was just, you know, hanging out with her friend.
Reading this felt like the reckoning I’ve gone through as a woman having to recast so much of what happened to me and other women decades ago, things we were conditioned to ignore or things that made us hostile to ourselves and others as women. Like, why did it take me so long to take Monica Lewinsky’s side? I really appreciated that.
And yes, I also suspected the one woman who could have been a suspect, not the hordes of men (slamming head against wall).
In the novel as it continues in my imagination, public pressure has increased, Omar had gotten a new trial and he has finally been released. After a settlement from the state of NH, he gets his technological bearings, moves to a state with fewer memories, (Massachusetts, I think) and starts his own podcast, "Exonerated" - interviewing one by one the hundreds of falsely imprisoned and later freed formerly incarcerated men and women. At some point, Bodie is a guest on his podcast, (maybe a producer of it?) [I don't dare look up whether there is already such a podcast - there probably is, but for the sake of this conjecture, let's say I came up with it.] As a formerly (but totally guilty) incarcerated person, I need Omar to be free, at least in my head.
Yeah.... pictures of our mutual theatre experience are mutually destructive. Don't start none, won't be none.😆
Thanks for answering my question! To your "straight face" comment - I think it certainly COULD have worked as a more traditional thriller vs. realist novel, but I found the path you chose to be infinitely more interesting.
I spent a good part of the novel convinced Fran did it! It might have been thinking about the A key mayhem at a certain boarding school. This made me unnecessarily nervous whenever Bodie was just, you know, hanging out with her friend.
Reading this felt like the reckoning I’ve gone through as a woman having to recast so much of what happened to me and other women decades ago, things we were conditioned to ignore or things that made us hostile to ourselves and others as women. Like, why did it take me so long to take Monica Lewinsky’s side? I really appreciated that.
And yes, I also suspected the one woman who could have been a suspect, not the hordes of men (slamming head against wall).
This was so satisfying to read 😁