Eva never really wanted to be a mother; especially not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his classmates, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to confront marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of shockingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn. From the very beginning, uncomfortable with the victims and the social decline of motherhood, Eva fears that her alarming aversion to her own son may be responsible for his nihilistic descent into chaos.