That is, until she gets an anonymous text : She didn’t jump. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one that she believes.
At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. Impulsive suicide, tragic and awful, but far more common than anyone realizes. And for Kate.Īn academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating jumps to her death. Not rushing anywhere.īecause by then it’s already too late for Amelia. The whole ride out to Brooklyn, Kate wonders with growing annoyance what Amelia-so smart and successful and always so supremely responsible-could possibly have done to warrant a suspension, especially from the very liberal Grace Hall.īut soon all of it-the annoyance, the questions, her ridiculous meeting-drops away, forgotten when Kate turns that last corner and sets eyes on the police officers, and the fire trucks and that ambulance, sitting there, doors hanging open. And for the most part, that has suited Kate just fine. For fourteen years, it has been just Kate and her daughter, the two of them alone and against the world. Because no matter how loath she is to abandon her meeting, there no one for Kate to send in her place. They will say only that Kate must come get her daughter and she must come now.Īnd it must be Kate herself. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, though the school refuses to say why, at least by telephone. 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 Park Slope private school.
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