Although the expensive and exclusive school comes across as a cauldron out of hell and a bit over-the-top, the book never bogs down and comes to a seamless and unanticipated conclusion. The author tells the story in flashbacks, alternating between Kate's and Amelia's point of view, leading up to the day Amelia died. When she receives an anonymous text message, it prompts her to prove that Amelia was murdered. Or at least that’s what the police are telling Kate, but she doesn’t believe Amelia killed herself. Running late to collect her daughter, Kate doesn’t arrive until pretty, smart, blonde Amelia has fallen from the school roof, a victim of her own failure. But when Kate receives a call from the school that she must leave a meeting and come pick up her daughter because good-girl Amelia has been suspended for cheating, Kate’s world completely crumbles. For one thing, she has been tapped for membership in her ritzy private school’s illicit all-girls club, a fact she’s hiding from her best friend, Sylvia, as well as her mother.
While curious about her dad’s identity, Amelia has other, more pressing issues about which to worry. A child born out of wedlock, Amelia doesn’t know who her father is, and Kate, for some reason that never really becomes clear, fails to share this information with her. Single mom Kate Baron struggles with the unholy demands that come with being an associate at a high-powered New York City law firm while raising her 15-year-old daughter, Amelia. Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising.Former attorney McCreight pens a multilayered legal thriller. 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. 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. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter-now.
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.
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