Critical Praise

"A harrowing, psychologically astute, sometimes even darkly humorous novel, with a clear-eyed, hard-won ending and a tough-minded sense of the difficult, often painful human enterprise."

—Publishers Weekly

"Ms. Shriver takes a calculated risk…but the gamble pays off as she strikes a tone of compelling intimacy."

—Wall Street Journal

"In crisply crafted sentences that cut to the bone of her feelings about motherhood, career, family, and what it is about American culture that produces child killers, Shriver yanks the reader back and forth between blame and empathy, retribution and forgiveness."

—Booklist

"Sometimes searing…impossible to put down…brutally honest…. Who, in the end, needs to talk about Kevin? Maybe we all do."

—Boston Globe

"Powerful [and] harrowing."

—Entertainment Weekly

"Impressive."

—New York Times