Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising. 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. Kimberly McCreight is an American author.

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. New York Times Bestseller Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia.

At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. Read Reconstructing Amelia A Novel by Kimberly McCreight available from Rakuten Kobo. 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. Kimberly McCreight Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult When Kate, single mother and law firm partner, gets an urgent phone call summoning her to her daughters exclusive private school, shes shocked. 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. Amelia’s first-person narration provides the most human note, as McCreight portrays the darkness of adolescence, complete with doomed love, bullies, poisonous friendship, and insecurity.

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