num_pages: 400
description:  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. 
language: English
title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
titlecomplete: We Need to Talk About Kevin
characters: Eva Khatchadourian, Franklin Plaskett, Celia Khatchadourian, Kevin Khatchadourian
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Book Club, Drama, Psychology, Horror, Adult, Contemporary, Crime
ratings_count: 190645
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Counterpoint