The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry 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. 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. 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.