Dystopian · Literary
The Road
A father and his young son push a shopping cart south across an ash-covered America, after an unnamed disaster has killed almost everything. They scavenge for food and hide from other survivors, who are mostly dangerous.
- First published
- 2006
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- short
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a spare, devastating story about love between a parent and child in the worst of worlds.
Skip this if you want hope or explanation, since the book is relentlessly bleak and gives little backstory.
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