In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning New York Times bestselling 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 … 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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Great book! Definitely not predictable and very worth a read!
The usage of social media was new for me and thought it was a unique way of story telling. Not a great book, but one that kept my interest.
This story is fiction but could be a reality. If I were a parent it would be enlightening and scary.
I read this book some time ago, before I started writing reviews. I remember being impacted by the Mother not giving up in getting the answers to what happened to her daughter. It was well written, had good character development and kept me turning the pages from beginning to end.
#4 on my book to read list.
This was a story of a girl who seemed to have committed suicide by jumping from her school’s roof. She was a good student, and a good girl, so her mom does not believe that she killed herself. She demands that the police re-open the case, and she starts to discover a lot of things about her daughter that she never knew while she was alive.
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Quick rread, twisty
What a sad account of how mean high school girls can be. This book was highly addictive, trying to figure out what all was happening to each character. These characters weave in and out of each chapter-even though the chapter was named for one of the characters. I could not put it down.
This was an interesting book. The writing style was different, kind of all over the place. Blog posts, texts, Facebook posts, past and present. But if you can get over that it was good.
Soso.
Great read! Suspenseful! Keeps you guessing and wanting more!
I really liked this book. It kept me guessing – and as a parent, you can’t help but feel the heaviness and heartbreak this mom endures.
It was an awesome book, realistic. It kept me guessing to almost the end.
This is a must read!!
This was I feel a pretty realistic look at teenage life and how petty it can be among peers to isolate and taunt one another. Also a view into a single mom’s life who has to work and does her best with the situation. This mom knows her daughter and knows there are things she would never do and doesn’t give up on the outcome to find the truth.
Interesting plot line, but too many plot twists at the end that went nowhere. Full development of teen characters versus two dimensional adult characters. Lots of bad actions by both adult and teen characters without observable consequences.
Modern and current subject matter but a little absurd……..many loose ends that didn’t get tied up until late in the story when interest lagged.
I didn’t care much what happened the the main characters…….not too realistic to me.
Compelling story, hard to put down!
Reminiscent of 13 reasons why…a captivating romp through all the elements which contributed to a “perfect storm” with cataclysmic results
Another standout novel by Kimberly Mcreight. A few months ago I read her work “Where They Found Her” and it immediately became one of my favorite books. “Reconstructing Amelia” was no different. The story moves at a steady pace throughout and the character development is purposeful – a pet peeve of mine is when I feel like I’m being inundated with …