We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is written in crisply crafted sentences that cut to the bone of her feelings about motherhood, career, and family, as well as what it is about American culture that produces child killers. Shriver yanks the reader back and forth between blame and emptiness, retribution and forgiveness. Never letting up on the tension, she ensures that, like Eva, the reader is forced to grapple with unhealed wounds.

Book group rating 4 out 5