I read this around the same time I read A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold, mother of the second shooter at Columbine Hish School. It sounds very much like the fictional Kevin. I am creeped out by both mothers. Eva in Kevin is a cold narcissist, distant, unable to unbend or be warm to her own child. She has her own agenda, she's enthralled with her own elitism, taste, intellect. Look at the real life mother, Sue Klebold. I think she has her own agenda, too, combining appeasing Dylan with furthering her own religious standards, whether artificial or just irrational, plus, looking like the perfect family. But is there anything you can do to forcibly treat someone who doesn't appear to be "that bad"?