![]() ![]() ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Need to Talk About Kevin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Besides, what good is repaying a debt to the wrong party? Only the most warped mother would feel rewarded for her trouble by the fact that at last her daughter's life is hideous, too. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Kindle edition by Shriver, Lionel. But who wants to pay a debt she can escape? Apparently, the childless get away with something sneaky. Once I had a toddler in tow, every man I knew-every woman, too, which is depressing-would take me less seriously.)ġ0. (I had never had a decent conversation with a friend's five-year-old in the room.)ĩ. I did, even at the outset, admit this to myself.)Ĩ. Unnatural altruism: being forced to make decisions in accordance with what was best for someone else. I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.)ĥ. ![]() My sister-in-law had developed bulging varicose veins in her legs during pregnancy that never retreated, and the prospect of calves branched in blue tree roots mortified me more than I could say. (I was slight, and preferred to stay that way. The kid's insufferable friends and their insufferable parents.)Ĥ. Rather, it might have looked something like this:Ģ. “Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. ![]()
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