We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, 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 son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband. The novel, Shriver's 7th, won the 2005 Orange Prize, a U.K.-based prize for female authors of any country writing in English. In 2011 the novel was adapted into a film.
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A woman gives up her bohemian life to have a child but soon finds the child to be impossible to bond with, even sociopathic. Now she must deal with the troubling actions he takes.
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Tilda Swinton was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role by the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild, and the BAFTAs. It was directed by Lynne Ramsay.
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Novels about sociopathy.. Sororicide in fiction.. Patricide in fiction.. Epistolary novels.. Fiction with unreliable narrators.. American crime novels.
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