Nadat haar bijna 16-jarige zoon op zijn highschool acht mensen heeft vermoord, kijkt zijn moeder in brieven aan haar man terug op diens kindertijd in een poging een verklaring voor zijn gedrag te vinden.
Vert. van: We need to talk about Kevin. - New York : Counterpoint, 2003. - Eerder verschenen o.d.t.: Waar is het fout gegaan. - Utrecht : Bruna, cop. 2006. - 1e dr. Nederlandse uitg.: 2007.
identity theory | interviews | lionel shriver
/We Need to Talk About Kevin/ is the story of Eva Khatchadourian's retrospective account of her son's life up to and beyond the day he went to his high school and began shooting his classmates. As Suzy Hansen writes at /Salon.com/: "What we get … is an interesting, thoughtful, and surprisingly credible thriller. /We Need to Talk About Kevin/ is about motherhood and the possibility that one's ambivalence about breeding might influence the growth and development of a child. Eva, in her scathingly honest and often witty recollections of her relationship with Franklin, her agonized decision to give up a life of traveling for motherhood, and her painful years with (the truly hideous and apathetic) Kevin, faces the question head on: /Am I responsible for what my child has done?/"
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