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We Need To Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver · Literary Fiction · 496 pages

38 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

psychological thrillercoming of ageunreliable narratortrauma recovery
psychological thrillercoming of age
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#370 All Time

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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."-- Cover, p. [4]

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