We Need to Talk about Kevin

<p><strong>Impossible to put down. . . . Who in the end needs to talk about Kevin? Maybe we all do. -- <em>Boston Globe</em></strong></p><p><strong>Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver's gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry</strong></p><p>Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence her own ambivalence toward motherhood and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities. </p><p>Eva never really wanted to be a mother--and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students a cafeteria worker and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now two years later it is time for her to come to terms with marriage career family parenthood and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.</p><p>Like Shriver's charged and incisive later novels including <em>So Much for That </em>and <em>The Post-Birthday World</em> <em>We Need to Talk About Kevin </em>is a piercing unforgettable and penetrating exploration of violence family ties and responsibility.</p>