Reconstructing Amelia

Title: Reconstructing Amelia
By:  Kimberly McCreight
Publication Date: April 2, 2013
Publisher: Harper
Genre: Women's Fiction

Blurb

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.

Crystal's Review

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I liked it.

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.

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