![]() ![]() ![]() With bumptious skill, Jensen builds her plot around Gabrielle and Bethany's cat-and-mouse relationship, gradually revealing that much more is going on in Bethany Krall's tortured little mind and body than anyone around her seems capable of understanding. Maddening though she is, she is the only character who never participates in the collective delusion that everything will turn out all right. We Need to Talk About Kevin: She is an ingeniously intractable youth, razor sharp in her ability to emotionally wound and uncannily prescient and perceptive beneath her adolescent, middle-finger-to-the-world rage. Bethany's character is well drawn and engaging, a little reminiscent of Lionel Shriver's angry adolescent murderer in The girl's father, Leonard Krall, a famous preacher in a fundamentalist Christian movement sweeping Britain, has disowned her. She is assigned Bethany Krall, who murdered her mother by stabbing her repeatedly with a screwdriver. ![]()
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