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We need to talk about Kevin

  • Lionel Shriver

4.20

15 ratings

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]

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Teenage boys
  • Massacres
  • High schools
  • New York Times bestseller
  • nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2012-01-14
  • Novel
  • High school students
  • Mothers and sons
  • Mass murder
  • Mothers and sons, fiction
  • New york (state), fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Crime, fiction
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About the author

  • Lionel Shriver

    4.14

    35 ratings · 101 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    2016

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    July 3, 2006

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    July 3, 2006

  • Edition cover

    Counterpoint

    2003

Edition cover

1st Perennial ed.

Perennial, Harper Perennial

2004

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Counterpoint

    2003