Rating: *****
Tags: Fiction, General, Literary, Psychological, New York (State), Epistolary fiction, Teenage Boys, Massacres, School Shootings, High Schools, Lang:en
Summary
The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone
awry 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,
Franklyn. 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.