Outer Dark
Author: Cormac McCarthy
A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution…..Read More
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