The colors are all very dark except for the girl's bright red shirt. It's about how well a parent ever really knows a child and how far one mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.Ĭover: A girl, presumably Amelia, looking at the New York skyline from the edge of the woods. Told in alternating voices, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies, of love and betrayal, of trusted friends and vicious bullies. Sifting through Amelia's emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Hall's roof that day-and why she died. And overwhelmed as she is by her own guilt and shattered by grief, it is the story that Kate believes until she gets the anonymous text: At least that's the story Grace Hall and the police tell Kate. Seemingly unable to cope with what she'd done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the school's roof in an act of "spontaneous" suicide.
But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kate's faced with far more devastating news. Kate can't believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl who's never been in trouble would do something like that. But, most of all, it’s the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save.įans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising.Given Summary: Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating. Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And for Kate.Īn academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death.
By then it’s already too late for Amelia.
But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate’s in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn.Īmelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter-now.
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