Columbine.

In a series of brutally introspective missives to her husband, Franklin, from whom she is separated, Eva tries to come to grips with the fact that their 17-year-old son, Kevin, has killed seven students and two adults... Guiltily she recalls how, as a successful writer, she was terrified of having a child. Was it for revenge, then, that from the moment of his birth Kevin was the archetypal difficult child, screaming for hours, refusing to nurse, driving away countless nannies, and intuitively learning to "divide and conquer" his parents? (back of book)

We journey with her, and she asks, and blames herslef, to the fault of Kevin's fall.

Those who do not fear the closets of mislead events today, that is goiang some understanding as horrific as that may be, need to know, and cry.

Touching a real turth, when a mom hates being one. mine did too. relatable..

Cry, hold all my kids, and shleter them from the rocks tossed today.

Lionel Shriver. This book won her The Orange Prize. She bold, and brutelly truthful.

Not for those who cannot handle the harshness of school shootings, and the choices society makes and their part in it.

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