A talented writer as always delivers! If you have read "All the Pretty Horses," or "No Country For Old Men," then "The Road" is a must.

Cormac McCarthy is America's best living novelist, in my opinion. This new novel follows an unnamed father and his young son as they trek across a lifeless, post-apocalyptic America. Every town is a ghost town and every person they come across a threat. McCarthy shows us that even in a bleak and futureless world, life still has value. Human goodness counts for something. The relationship between the father and son is really authentic and touching. I love this novel and you will too.

A bleak father-and-son journey along a claustrophobic road haunted by memories behind and unknowing ahead, undoing from the left and undoing from the right. Poisoned, traumatized, the man sleepless, hyper-vigilant, the boy exhausted, constantly begging affirmation. Consider the single-word question "okay?" that burns the conscience at every turn. A story of unbelievable willpower and redemption at the core of all human experience; a heartbreaking love story.

I am a huge fan of McCarthy and his new book did not disappoint. While the plot sounds like "Mad-Max" with its post-apocolyptic setting, it has an interesting take on the emotional aspect of survival. I found myself wondering if I would be able to survive in a world so full of despair and hopelessness...I finished the book in one day because I couldn't bear not knowing how it ended. Definitely worth reading!