Manky's review
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
by Lionel Shriver
Manky's review
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver
Manky's review
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recommended for: people interested in family dynamics
I read this book because it was compared to Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes. It's the story of a family told in retrospect after the older child, Kevin, murders several people in his high school. His mother tells the story of how it was to raise Kevin. She had never felt that mother/child bond develop with him. Her husband, Kevin's father, believed he had, but in actuality no one really knew Kevin at all. He simply did not fit in anywhere... not at school, not with groups of friends, and certainly not at home. And then he did the unthinkable. He went to school one day and coldly murdered several of his classmates after setting them up in a situation from which there was no escape. His family was left to deal with the consequences.
Lionel Shriver has an extraordinary sense of what it's like to have a child who is so emotionally removed from the family that it's hard to believe he was born and raised within it. She also has a sense of what it's like for the mother of such a chi...more
Lionel Shriver has an extraordinary sense of what it's like to have a child who is so emotionally removed from the family that it's hard to believe he was born and raised within it. She also has a sense of what it's like for the mother of such a chi...more
