![]() ![]() And then she sees the empty boot and her annoyance turns to something colder. ![]() No one seems to care that she needs to get back to her office. When Kate arrives at the school twenty minutes later and sees the knot of firefighters and police mingling with the students and faculty in a courtyard, her annoyance intensifies. And Kate is really annoyed with one of her colleagues, who is much too eager to take over the client meeting she’s being forced to leave. She is annoyed with Dean Pearl, who won’t tell her why Amelia is being suspended for three days, starting immediately. When Kate Barron is summoned to her daughter’s school by Grace Hall’s unlikable dean of academics, her first emotion is annoyance. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight is a literary mystery wherein a mother struggles to understand the reason for her daughter’s death, and the complications of her life (available April 2, 2013). ![]()
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