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    <![CDATA[We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry <br/><br/>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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    <body><![CDATA[The pull-quote on the cover of the edition I read suggests that it's impossible to put this book down.  That's almost entirely false.  Out of the book's 400 pages, the first 300 were kind of like pulling teeth.  Creepy, maternal teeth.  The last 100 pages, however, were actually and physically impos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2421456">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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