Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winnning novel details the harrowing adventures of a son and his father, two survivors in a post-apocalyptic world, making their way to the coast. I'm not normally a fan of McCarthy, but the novel's spare, muscular prose, as well as the poignancy and suspensefulness of the situation, kept me turning pages. A difficult read--I felt emotionally drained upon the book's completion, as there are no fairy-tale endings for this family of two. Still, I'm praying that there's a glimmer of hope for the boy--that his resilience, fueled by the enduring love of his father, will be the sustaining fire that abides in him, despite the charred destruction without.
