Published: New York : Counterpoint Press, 2011
Description: 1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN: 9781582438870,
Language: English
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OverDrive subjects: Fiction, Literature
That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But generalizations about genes are likely to provide cold comfort if it's your own child who just opened fire on his feellow algebra students and whose class photograph—with its unseemly grin—is shown on the evening news coast-to-coast.<p>If the question of who's to blame for teenage atrocity intrigues news-watching voyeurs, it tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadourian. Two years before the opening of the novel, her son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and the much-beloved teacher who had tried to befriend him. Because his sixteenth birthday arrived two days after the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is currently in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York.<p>In relating the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses her estranged husband, Frank, through a series of startingly direct letters...
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File size: 529 KB
In English
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