Outer Dark

Outer Dark is 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.

• Child of God
• The Orchard Keeper
• Suttree
• Cities of the Plain: Border Trilogy (3)
• The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Book 2)
• Gardener's Son
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
• The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
• No Country for Old Men
• All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)