Book & a Beer Bookclub

Currently reading: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 

Synopsis

This is the Orange prize winning, million copy bestseller: now a “Serpent’s
Tail” classic. Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother
of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a
cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. 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 absent 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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