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![]() At the office, Kate finds that the case that had once seemed so important to her has been given to her law school nemesis, Daniel. Finally Kate cannot remain home any longer and decides to go back to work. Kate spends four weeks grieving her child, remembering every moment of the final days of her daughter’s life, wondering what she might have missed. Kate is told that Amelia, in despair over being caught cheating, has committed suicide by jumping from the school’s roof. Kate rushes to her daughter’s school only to arrive and find emergency vehicles all around the building. Kate is a lawyer who is in the middle of a meeting when her daughter’s school calls, telling her that her fifteen year old daughter has been caught cheating and has been suspended. Reconstructing Amelia is compelling first novel that will leave every parent desperate to hug their kid and every young reader more aware of in whom they place their trust. ![]() In the end, Kate learns all of Amelia’s secrets, some good, some not. This message enrages Kate, but it also gives her hope that spurs her to investigate her daughter’s death more closely. Weeks later, Kate gets a text message telling her that Amelia did not jump. When Kate arrives at the school, she learns her daughter has committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the school. ![]() In this novel, Kate gets a call at work that her daughter was caught cheating and is being expelled from her private Brooklyn high school. ![]() Reconstructing Amelia is a novel by new author Kimberly McCreight. ![]()
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