We Need to Talk About Kevin

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Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son Kevin murdered seven of his fellow high-school students a cafeteria worker and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become she confesses to a deep long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling absorbing and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works nobody starves and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose. --> Genre: Crime Mystery