Kimberly McCreight’s RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, in which a career-focused, single mother refuses to accept that her perfect daughter’s plunge from the roof of her elite Brooklyn private school was suicide and searches through e-mails, texts and Facebook posts to prove otherwise; it’s the story of a secret first love, an all-girls club steeped in mean girl tradition and how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save, to Claire Wachtel at Harper, in a major deal, for two books, at auction, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
