We need to talk about Kevin

 The novel is an unsettling story told from the first-person perspective of Eva Khatchadourian, the mother of a teenage boy named Kevin who commits a high school massacre. Written in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts her ambivalent feelings about motherhood, her emotionally detached relationship with her son, and her quest to understand the reasons behind his violent actions. The narrative explores themes of nature versus nurture, maternal instinct, and the apathetic nature of evil.