Scholarship, and taught in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, where she received an award for excellence in teaching. She studied philosophy in Bologna, Italy, and received a dissertation grant from Freie University in Berlin, Germany. Faber writes across genres, including thrillers, rom-coms, and essays. Her work explores questions about memory, loss, language, and desire. Steeped in philosophical, psychological, and literary themes, her writing is grounded in studies of character. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.
Faber's debut novel is The Department.
[My Book, The Movie: The Department; Q&A with Jacqueline Faber]
At Electric Lit Faber tagged seven books in which bystanders must decide whether to speak out or stay silent. One title on the list:
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca MakkaiRead about another entry on the list.
Academia lends itself well to the complexities of the witness. This next book is about a professor who must confront her own buried knowledge about an old campus murder when she returns to her alma mater to teach a class. The novel feels like a fresh, exciting departure from Makkai’s stellar third book, The Great Believers, which was a finalist for the National Book Awards. In her latest novel, Makkai explores the dangers of refusing to acknowledge one’s past and the haunted form that memories take when one is relegated to the role of the bystander.
I Have Some Questions For You is among Kat Davis's top ten feminist crime novels subverting the Dead Girl trope, Elise Juska’s eight best campus novels ever written, Nicole Hackett's six top mysteries about motherhood and crime, Brittany Bunzey's ten books that take you inside their characters’ heads, Anne Burt's four top recent titles with social justice themes, and Heather Darwent's nine best campus thrillers.
--Marshal Zeringue
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