We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
I'd love to be able to talk to someone about this book. It won't leave my head.
I resisted reading it because the fictional story is so grim. In it, the mother whose son is a Columbine-type murderer looks at why he did it, what role she played, what she could have done differently, and her meta- identity pre- and post-murder. I downloaded a sample on my kindle and got hooked. It's beyond beautifully written, in epistolary fashion, each letter attempting to sort things out for herself and her estranged husband who had denied Kevin was ever different right up to the day of the murder.
Love is tragically weird.
I resisted reading it because the fictional story is so grim. In it, the mother whose son is a Columbine-type murderer looks at why he did it, what role she played, what she could have done differently, and her meta- identity pre- and post-murder. I downloaded a sample on my kindle and got hooked. It's beyond beautifully written, in epistolary fashion, each letter attempting to sort things out for herself and her estranged husband who had denied Kevin was ever different right up to the day of the murder.
Love is tragically weird.