If any book were to convince me to change my mind and believe in the stupidity that is antinatalism, it would be this book. This is one of those books that’s ranked as “most disturbing books ever” and it certainly is. I’m the mother of ‘one of those Columbine kids‘” “These days it is solely through notoriety that I understand who I am and what part I play in the dramas of others. Was Kevin always a sicko, or was Eva a bad mother? Does she still owe him her motherly love, even now? Did she ever actually love Kevin? And most importantly, is she culpable in his crimes? She reflects on their life together, Kevin’s childhood, and what went wrong. The main character of We Need to Talk About Kevin is Eva Khatchadourian, the mother of the eponymous fictional school shooter, Kevin, and the story is told in letters she writes to her ex-husband a year after the shooting. 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.“ My Thoughts 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. “ 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.
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