Skip to main content
close
Font size options
Increase or decrease the font size for this website by clicking on the 'A's.
Contrast options
Choose a color combination to give the most comfortable contrast.
Image for event: Killer Thrillers

Registration now closed

Killer Thrillers

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

2019-11-25 19:00:00 2019-11-25 20:00:00 America/Chicago Killer Thrillers Horror and thriller lovers, join Lori for our newest book club. Not for the faint of heart! Chicago Ridge Public Library - Meeting Room

Monday, November 25
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2019-11-25 19:00:00 2019-11-25 20:00:00 America/Chicago Killer Thrillers Horror and thriller lovers, join Lori for our newest book club. Not for the faint of heart! Chicago Ridge Public Library - Meeting Room

Horror and thriller lovers, join Lori for our newest book club. Not for the faint of heart!

In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for Kate.

An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump.

Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, it’s the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save.

Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Ameliajust as gripping and surprising. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussions | Adult Programs |

TAGS: | |

Chicago Ridge Public Library

refdesk@chicagoridgelibrary.org
Phone: 708-423-7753

Hours
We're closed Sunday March 31
Mon, Mar 25 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Mar 26 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Mar 27 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Mar 28 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Mar 29 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Mar 30 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Mar 31 Closed

Upcoming events

Fri, Mar 29, All day

Fri, Mar 29, All day

Fri, Mar 29, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Sat, Mar 30, All day

Sat, Mar 30, All day

Sat, Mar 30, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Canceled
Sun, Mar 31, All day

Mon, Apr 01, All day

Mon, Apr 01, 10:00am - 10:45am

Mon, Apr 01, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Meeting Room

Mon, Apr 01, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Mon, Apr 01, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Meeting Room

Tue, Apr 02, All day

Tue, Apr 02, 10:00am - 10:45am

Tue, Apr 02, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Meeting Room

Tue, Apr 02, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Meeting Room

Tue, Apr 02, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Meeting Room

Wed, Apr 03, All day

Wed, Apr 03, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Rescheduled
Wed, Apr 03, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
New date Tuesday, June 04, 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Thu, Apr 04, All day

Thu, Apr 04, 6:00pm - 6:45pm

Fri, Apr 05, All day

Fri, Apr 05, 10:00am - 11:00am
Meeting Room
This event is full