Written with love by | Chelsea |
Happy Summer! I am so excited to actually have time to read for fun again instead of history textbooks (not that I don’t love reading history textbooks). This months CupcakeMAG book club read is Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. If you missed what it’s about, here’s a quick summary:
“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.”
Let me start off by saying that I haven’t read anything by Gillian Flynn, but now that I’ve read this book, anything by Kimberly McCreight or Gillian Flynn will definitely be on my list! I have always been a mushy love story or a semi-paranormal/young adult lit fan, but this book opened my eyes to a whole new world. The depth to this story is unreal and you can see the growth of Amelia throughout the story as she searches for truth.
What did you think?
