Globe Reading Club
We need to talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as“sometimes searing . . . [and] impossible to put down.”