The Road

i have to rave about this book. it was an assignment for my american literature class (which i happen to love by the way) and i can't tell you how much i love it. its terrifying, beautiful, devastating, tense....i mean you name the emotion and i'm pretty sure it's in there.

"a father and his son walk alone through burned america. nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. it is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. the sky is dark. their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. they have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the law-less bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food---and each other. the road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. it boldy imagines a future in which no hope remains, but which the father and his son, 'each the other's world entire,' are sustained by love."

i loved it. oprah loved it.. so will you.