We need to talk about Kevin

1 About this book

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, first published by Counterpoint, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her emotionally detached son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband.

The novel, Shriver's seventh, won the 2005 Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize For Fiction). In 2011 the novel was adapted into a film.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: a thriller and a long read.

• Mass murder
• Crime
• Thrillers
• Teenage boys
• Massacres
• High schools
• Novel
• High school students