We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

[Tanice]

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, 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.We Need to Talk About Kevin

[Linda]

Rather depressing story especially when the author was reciting all the mass murders that had gone on. It reminded me of the current headlines in the paper and newscasts.
Shocking ending. Not sure I would have read it if I had known the subject matter.