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Author McCreight, Kimberly.

Title Reconstructing Amelia : a novel / Kimberly McCreight.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
NewYork, NY : HarperCollins, [2013]
©2013
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1557897~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F MCCREIGH    DUE 05-15-24
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Description 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Kate is 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 is 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. The novel 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.
Subject Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Private schools -- Fiction.
Cheating (Education) -- Fiction.
Suicide -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.
Genre Psychological fiction.
ISBN 9780062225436
006222543X
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August 15 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: Complicated story about a single mother trying to piece together the events before her daughter's death (did she jump or was she killed). Good plot though a lot of the mom's internal dialogue was cliche and it was a little irritating that the time reference jumped back and forth from the past to present.
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August 14 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: This book was really good. Suspenseful and real. You felt for the characters.
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