At the center of it all, of course, is Amelia’s online existence: her Facebook, her texts, emails, blogs, etc. What at first seems like a grieving mother’s denial becomes justified as more and more information is revealed, and the book journeys into the world of upper-class teens and their cliques and romances, as well as adult grievances that bleed over into their children’s lives. The rest of the novel deals with the lawyer, Kate’s, investigation into her daughter’s death, as she believes without a doubt that Amelia would never have committed suicide, which is what the police investigators quickly decide upon. This is how Reconstructing Amelia begins, and it serves as an intriguing entrance into Kimberly McCreight’s debut. But by the time she arrives at the school, her daughter, Amelia, has fallen from the roof and is dead. An up-and-coming litigation lawyer is in a meeting when her daughter’s school calls: her daughter’s been suspended, and needs to be picked up right away.
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