02222cam a2200397 i 4500 17985754 20260122110717.0 131231t20132013nyu 000 f eng d 2013362189 9781471111297 (paperback) 17985754 (OCoLC)795757518 BTCTA eng BTCTA rda YDXCP BDX FLWMD KNJ WIQ BWX UPZ IXA OCLCQ AU@ DLC AU lccopycat Alfaisal Main Library PS3613.C386444 R43 2013 McCreight, Kimberly, author. Reconstructing Amelia : a novel / Kimberly McCreight. First edition. New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2013 ©2013 382 pages 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Private schools Fiction. Cheating (Education) Fiction. Suicide Fiction. Guilt Fiction. Mystery fiction. gsafd Print books. 4 Fiction. lcgft lcc BOOKS 608311 608311 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2026-01-22 0 PS3613.C386444 R43 2013 AU00000000021259 2026-01-22 11:08:36 60.00 2026-01-22 BOOKS