Reconstructing Amelia is Kimberly McCreight's debut novel about a young woman who attends an exclusive private school in Brooklyn. The novel is broken into two characters' perspectives - one being Amelia's with attendant blog posts, text messages and facebook posts and her narration of the story, and the other being her mother Kate's, with emails, instant messages and as well as her telling of the narrative. Amelia, a promising student athlete is tapped to join one of the newly reformed "clubs" (akin to fraternities/sororities) the results of which form the basis for the novel. 
 While some threads of the story proved unfulfilling, overall I thought the characters well-conceived and rendered and the writing to be good, especially so in the last chapter. While not a book I would pick up on my own, I'm glad I read it.