Let's start where we left off. With the punch in the gut that is "We Need To Talk About Kevin". Warning - do NOT read the final few chapters of this book when you are around people...just trust me on this one...be alone in a safe place when you read them.
This book was disturbing on so many levels. It's every mother's nightmare, to want a baby so badly, to have the right timing, the money and time to be able to stay home with them, nourish them and provide them with anything that they need - and to have them be completely unresponsive and subversive. To top off the suffering, to have your spouse not believe you when you try to warn him that something is not right. As a woman/mother/wife most of this book made me alternately mad and sad and wanting to crawl under the covers and squeeze on my babies.
As this is written in letters I thought the audio format was a good fit for this book. It was like the narrator was reading her private letters aloud but a friend of mine was not a fan of the format so choose at your own risk. Just don't make the mistake that I did and have your ear buds in at work for the last hour of the audiobook. Just don't.
Goodreads rating: 5 stars for emotional impact alone.
Date completed: December 16, 2013
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