6/12/2023 0 Comments We need to talk about kevin novel![]() ![]() Shriver tackles it with admirable panache, turning a sensational story into a troubling one.” - Wall Street Journal I got an easy one, but it's not too difficult to imagine being in way over my head with a more challenging kid." Only once I was a parent did I truly realize how little control we have over our kids' temperaments. ![]() Nurture" reading kick lately, and while this novel doesn't answer the (unanswerable) question, it certainly gives a lot of thought-provoking material for contemplation. Set following a Columbine-like massacre, the narrator is the killer's mother, reflecting back over his childhood and trying to understand why and whether it was her fault. If I hadn't stayed up late reading it, I think I would have been up anyway hiding under the covers. ![]() "OMG this was can't-put-down good, but so creepy and disturbing. 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. 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. Eva never really wanted to be a mother-and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering 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. ![]()
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