We Need to Talk About Kevin (Hardcover)

from sweetiegherkin

We Need to Talk about Kevin is a book told entirely in letters from Eva to her estranged husband Franklin, detailing their son's life from their decision to have a child up until his current imprisonment for murdering nine people in a school shooting. Despite all the buzz, I had no interest or in...

from jayne_charles

This novel challenges the notion that only ignorant layabout chain-smoking drug-abusing parents raise delinquent kids. What if the mother of that delinquent is well-to-do, highly intelligent, articulate, successful in her career, and finds young children 'brutally dull'? I wish I hadn't waited so...

from kjuliff

As soon as I finished this novel I had to physically throw it in the rubbish bin. It was retrieved by my daughter who could not believe I'd throw out a book. It was. Too disturbing for me. ,/p.

from msf59

"Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty." Just before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin goes to school and methodically kills nine people. The questions are endless: Was he born this way? Bad parenting? School-yard bullying? Shriver bravely attempts to examine all these issues, by ...

from cgl56

I just finished reading this book and can hardly breathe. This superbly written book is more deeply disturbing, yet thought provoking, than anything I've ever read. There were many parts that dragged and I often had to put it down because it was emotionally overwhelming, but I kept going back unt...