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A stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughters 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 daughters exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: A stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughters 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 daughters 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 cant believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl whos never been in trouble would do something like that. But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kates faced with far more devastating news. Amelia is dead. Seemingly unable to cope with what shed done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the schools roof in an act of spontaneous suicide. At least thats 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 didnt jump. Sifting through Amelias emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Halls 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. Its 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.

A stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughters 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 daughters exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: A stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughters 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...  Read More