![]() Everything else is another story … and then some.Īll that social media overload proves raw and exposing. ![]() The one detail Kate knows as truth, however, is that Amelia didn’t cheat, at least not on that Virginia Woolf paper, whose work Amelia knew better than even her favorite teacher. Because the Amelia that Kate was so sure of, isn’t really who her daughter had become in just the few short months before she died. But “four weeks, two days, and sixteen hours since Amelia had leaped off the roof of Grace Hall,” her devastated single mother, Kate, returns to her high-power law firm office, and receives an anonymous text: “Amelia didn’t jump.”Īnd so Kate begins ‘reconstructing’ what happened that tragic afternoon, and how her bright, talented, well-loved, never-trouble-causing, near-perfect daughter ended up a teenage fatality. With all the comparisons to megaseller- coming-to-a-multiplex-near-you, Gone Girl, a more fitting title might have been Gone Good Girl. The official ruling is “impulsive suicide” following a suspension for cheating. ![]() Her 15-year-old body lies broken on the grounds of her posh private school in Brooklyn. Without a doubt, Kimberly McCreight‘s bestselling debut contains every parent’s every nightmare, beginning with the absolute worst at the end of the first full chapter: “I’m sorry, Mrs. ![]()
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