Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the
mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow
high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored
teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his
sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her
to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood,
and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly
direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.
Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood
from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her
own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically
off the rails.