THE QUESTION AUTHORITY

Nora Buchbinder - formerly rich and now broke - would be the last woman in
Brooklyn to claim #metoo, but when a work assignment reunites her with her childhood best friend, Beth, she finds herself in a hall of mirrors. Was their eighth grade teacher Beth's lover or her rapist? Where were the grownups? What should justice look like, after so much time has passed? And what can Nora do, now?

Nora's memories, and Beth's, and those of their classmates, their former teacher, and members of his family, bring to light some of the ways we absorb and manage unbearable behavior. From denial to re-invention, self-pity to self-righteousness, endless questioning to intransigent certainty, readers will recognize the ripples sent into the lives of others by one broken man.

Rachel Cline, author of the novels What to Keep, and My Liar, has written for The New York Times; New York, More, Self, and Tin House magazines, and is a produced screen and television writer. She lives in Brooklyn Heights, a few blocks from where she grew up.