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Maybe we all do.” — \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed author Lionel Shriver's gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEva 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, Franklin. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Shriver’s charged and incisive later novels, including \u003cem\u003eSo Much for That \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Post-Birthday World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin \u003c\/em\u003eis a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEva 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, Franklin.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Scathingly honest and often witty.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sometimes searing . . . impossible to put down . . . brutally honest. . . . Who, in the end, needs to talk about Kevin? 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