Tucson Bookworms

We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

This is an emotionally gripping story as told in a series of letters written by Kevin's mother to his father, her estranged husband after Kevin kills seven fellow students, teachers and a janitor in a mass schoolhouse murder.  It is a compelling work of fiction about a mother who didn't necessarily look forward to motherhood but did her best to be the mother little Kevin needed and of the father who explained away Kevin's strange behaviors beginning in infancy.  It is not an easy story to read but will stay with the reader for some time, particularly the surprise ending.  The movie has been released in some markets but apparently not yet in Tucson.