We learn in the opening pages of Reconstructing Amelia that fifteen year-old Amelia fell to her death from the roof of her Brooklyn prep school, an action ruled a suicide. Even at this early point, the moment hits hard when Amelia’s mother shows up at school to pick her up, unaware of the tragedy that occurred. Her mother, a single parent and partner at a prestigious law firm, is knocked back by grief and blames herself. She drifts through her… Read more »
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