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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
by Lionel Shriver

Published: 2006-07-01
Paperback : 400 pages
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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, ...

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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.

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Nature v Nuture - very good discussion point.
by aopacak (see profile) 04/20/11

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by hopewellmomschool (see profile) 05/03/11
Some may want to read COLUMBINE

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  "We Need to Talk About Kevin"by Lacy P. (see profile) 05/13/11

One of those books you can rad many times. I have read it three times. Very thought provoking. SO many questions are presented. Who creates these children? Are they born this way or is it the parents faults?... (read more)

 
  "Hard to believe"by Lisa H. (see profile) 05/03/11

no one got him real therapy.....it's fiction that's too real.

 
  "We Need to Talk About Kevin"by Belinda S. (see profile) 04/29/11

 
  "Lets review Kevin"by Antonette O. (see profile) 04/20/11

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