Reconstructing Amelia LP A Novel
Reconstructing Amelia LP A Novel by Kimberly McCreight is a large print edition published by HarperCollins on April 2, 2013, featuring 592 pages in English. This novel begins with Kate receiving a distressing call from her daughter Amelia’s exclusive private school, where she learns that Amelia has been suspended. The situation escalates when Kate arrives to find the school surrounded by emergency services, leading to the devastating revelation that Amelia has died, allegedly by suicide after being caught cheating.
The narrative delves into themes of family life and the complexities of women’s relationships as Kate grapples with her grief and guilt. As she seeks to uncover the truth behind her daughter’s death, she receives an anonymous message suggesting that Amelia did not jump. The story explores the depths of a mother’s love and the lengths she will go to vindicate her daughter’s memory, while also touching on the dynamics of secret friendships and the pressures faced by young women in a competitive environment.
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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. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. 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. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for Kate.
An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump.
Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. 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.
Fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising.
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