We Need to Talk About Kevin

I just finished reading this phenomenal and insanely depressing book
Wow. I was absolutely not expecting that plot twist ending. I don't think a novel has ever fucked me up as bad as this one did
The entire novel, you expect Franklin to reply, at some point. Waiting for him to respond to his ex wife about this whole ordeal.
And then…I mean, God damn. When the second to last chapter hit, I could have never predicted such a horrid turn of events despite the fact that it was right in front of me the whole time. It puts the entire novel in a new light. The way she said "Celia would end up in your custody" but what she really meant was that Celia died too. I mean…Jesus Christ, I can't think of a more brutal ending
It justifies all of the callousness throughout
Like you have to wonder, as you read it, how this woman can be so seemingly nonchalant about her son killing all of these people but then you realize that she isn't nonchalant at all… she's grieving, horribly, for the loss of everything she ever cared about, and even worse, she was right. Right to fear her own child. Right to not trust him
I'm going to be thinking about this book for a very, very long time