![]() They are heading toward “the coast,” but the man isn’t sure there’s anything waiting for them there. The conditions that surround them are unsafe, so they have to keep moving. Sure, I’ve skimmed the big hits out of a sense of obligation, but nothing has come close to resonating with me to the extent, and for the unblinking duration, that The Road has.įor those unfamiliar, The Road is the story of an unnamed man and his unnamed son, who are walking through an ashen, ruined landscape in the wake of an unnamed catastrophe that happened years prior, when the boy was quite young. Not only is it the best parenting book I’ve ever read, it’s the only parenting book I’ve read cover to cover. Cormac McCarthy died earlier this month, and none of the tributes I’ve read have mentioned what I consider his most important contribution to the American literary canon: He wrote the best parenting book of all time, The Road. ![]()
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