We Need to Talk About Kevin

Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay starring Tilda Swinton and John C. ReillyLionel Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understandher teenage son’s deadly violence her own ambivalence toward motherhood andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver’s charged and incisive laternovels including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World We Need to Talk About Kevin isa piercing unforgettable and penetrating exploration of violence familyties and responsibility a book that the Boston Globe describes as“sometimes searing . . . [and] impossible to put down.”