Reconstructing Amelia : a novel / Kimberly McCreight.
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.
When her high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia's life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062225436
- ISBN: 006222543X
- ISBN: 9780062326584
- ISBN: 0062225448
- Physical Description: 382 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, New York : HarperCollins, [2013]
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- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 17 175112.
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- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
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Suicide > Fiction.
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Single mothers > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Death > Fiction.
Women lawyers > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Secrecy.
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- Psychological fiction.
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- 44 of 44 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC MCCREIGHT (Text) | 36015000648242 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC MCCREIGHT (Text) | 36015001220520 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
