Goodreads says…
A stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter’s life, sifting through her emails, texts, and social media to piece together the shocking truth about the last days of her life. Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating. Kate can’t believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl who’s never been in trouble would do something like that. But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kate’s faced with far more devastating news. Amelia is dead.
Seemingly unable to cope with what she’d done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the school’s roof in an act of “spontaneous” suicide. At least that’s the story Grace Hall and the police tell Kate. And overwhelmed as she is by her own guilt and shattered by grief, it is the story that Kate believes until she gets the anonymous text: She didn’t jump. Sifting through Amelia’s emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Hall’s roof that day-and why she died.
Told in alternating voices, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies, of love and betrayal, of trusted friends and vicious bullies. It’s about how well a parent ever really knows a child and how far one mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.
I’m currently under the gun to finish the newest Outlander novel. At 800+ pages where you want to savor every word (no skimming here), it is taking quite some time and is due back to the library in a few days. ahhhhhhhhhh. Let me know what your reading right now!!
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I am reading Selection..at your recommendation Amanda. Pretty good so far! Just finished Six Months Later by NatalieD Richards. And next on my list is That NIght by Chevy Stevens..author of Still MIssing, one of the most haunting books I have ever read.
Finally finished A Fault In Our Stars. Starting The Hundred Foot Journey, borrowed from a friend. Can't believe the boys are halfway through their first week!! Hope they are doing well.
Sounds pretty good – another one to add to my list. My copy of Written… still hast come in at the library!! Can't wait to hear what you think of it. :-)
I followed your recommendation and read "Where'd You Go Bernadette?" on my recent beach vacation. Thanks for the review. It was a cute book. I also read "Summer at Tiffany". I loved it. If you have not read it I highly recommend it, especially if you have a fancy for the pretty things sold at Tiffany & Co.
With you on Reconstructing. It was good enough.
When we weren't having fun on various bodies of water;) I was able to read "& Sons" every morning while boys played for hours. I can't read more than 2 pages at bedtime. Zzzz
Maybe key is turning off TV earlier?!