Kimberly McCreight

In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's 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's 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. Reconstructing Amelia 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.Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising.

Cleo, en opprørsk student, har alltid vært den rake motsetningen til sin mor Kat, en advokat med et plettfritt rykte. Cleo vet ikke at alt dette bare er en fasade før den dagen hun drar til morens hus for å spise middag. Der finner hun huset tomt, en gryte som brenner på komfyren, og, viktigst av alt, en blodflekket sko. Til tross for bitterheten hun har båret til Kat i flere år, setter Cleo seg fore å finne ut hva som har skjedd. Men er det klokt å prøve å kaste lys over ting når stadig mørkere hemmeligheter dukker opp fra morens fortid og setter hennes egen fremtid i fare? «McCreight veksler mesterlig mellom de ulike tidsnivåene og fortellerperspektivene» Booklist