We Need To Talk About Kevin Condition:Like New best-selling author Margaret Silf looks

best-selling author Margaret Silf looks closely at the subject of chaos—and the intrinsic transition it brings—through the lens of Christian spirituality

After a lifetime spent struggling against censorship

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We Need To Talk About Kevin Condition:Like New best-selling author Margaret Silf looksShortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. For this powerful, shocking novel, Lionel Shriver was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction. ~from the back cover