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Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who, on a spring Thursday in 1999, three days before his 16th birthday and a few weeks before [[Columbine]], shot 10 people in his school's gym. 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 [[Nature vs. Nurture|alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.]]