From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road - A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative set is an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother s child a boy; he 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 separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers headlong toward an eerie apocalyptic resolution. Look for Cormac McCarthy s latest bestselling novels The Passenger and Stella Maris.