![]() (N.B.-all quotes are paraphrases in this review. He is thoroughly happy about the prospect, and Eva allows herself to be persuaded: she describes the situation: They had a wonderful marriage, from Eva's perspective, but the question of children kept arising as Eva entered her late thirties.Įva is, at best, unsettled about whether she wants to have children. ![]() She also was married to a wonderful man who she loved absolutely, although he was her opposite in almost every way. It had become very successful with the backpacking crowd, and she was satisfied with her life. Eva was a successful businesswoman, who had started a series of travel books on how to travel for the least amount of money. ![]() What the book is really about, though, is an examination of motherhood. This horrible act is revealed early in the book, and Eva continues to write while visiting her son twice a month in prison-all she is allowed to see him. Their son Kevin is in prison for killing eight students, a teacher and a cafeteria worker in a Columbine like school shooting. ![]() The book is a series of letters written by a woman in her fifties, Eva Katchadourian, to her husband Franklin. The outline of the plot is a bit misleading. It is "haunting," our very own Modern American Turn of the Screw. My book club picked this book to discuss in April, and someone described it as "haunting." I have just finished it, and can only echo that description. ![]()
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