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Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
4.0
Second book in a row on loved ones investigating suicides they believed not to be suicides. I actually liked the first I read, Sister, better, but this was a compelling read as well. The novel has sections from the mom, Kate's, point of view, as well as from the fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia. Amelia's facebook statuses and text message conversations are included as well.
I saw a review of this book in Entertainment Weekly (and later, it was on the bulls-eye as a must read for summer). I noted it as a book I wanted to read, but for some reason could not remember the name. I kept wanting to call it "Excavating...." In some ways, it is an excavation, not just of Amelia and her life in the months before her death but also of Kate and her lies and motivations and how they affected her daughter.
Usually, I am very willing to let the logic of a novel strain the bounds of credulity, but in this book, Kate accompanies a police detective on many interviews. All I could think in those scenes was: this would never happen. I wish the author had though of a more realistic way to present the narrative.
I saw a review of this book in Entertainment Weekly (and later, it was on the bulls-eye as a must read for summer). I noted it as a book I wanted to read, but for some reason could not remember the name. I kept wanting to call it "Excavating...." In some ways, it is an excavation, not just of Amelia and her life in the months before her death but also of Kate and her lies and motivations and how they affected her daughter.
Usually, I am very willing to let the logic of a novel strain the bounds of credulity, but in this book, Kate accompanies a police detective on many interviews. All I could think in those scenes was: this would never happen. I wish the author had though of a more realistic way to present the narrative.