\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE MILLION COPIES SOLD\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.\u003c/p\u003e
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