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The Blurb On The Back:
Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin’s upbringing. For this powerful, shocking novel, Lionel Shriver was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
This isn’t a perfect book, but it is powerful and Shriver has found a way to tie in the tragedy of high school shootings with an examination of motherhood and what makes a good mother in a way that resonates with you for a long time afterwards.
Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin’s upbringing. For this powerful, shocking novel, Lionel Shriver was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
This isn’t a perfect book, but it is powerful and Shriver has found a way to tie in the tragedy of high school shootings with an examination of motherhood and what makes a good mother in a way that resonates with you for a long time afterwards.
