Lionel Shriver
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
Lionel Shriver
That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child’s character is self-evident. But such generalizations provide cold comfort when it’s your own son who’s just opened fire on his fellow students and whose class photograph—with its unseemly grin—is blown up on the national news.
The question of who’s to blame for teenage atrocity tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadourian. Two years ago, her son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the…
