The Road
2006 · 287 pages
Pushing a shopping cart south through a burned gray America, a man and his boy hide from people who eat other people. The talk between them is the tenderest thing McCarthy ever wrote.
★ 8.3
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The Joys of Motherhood
1979 · 230 pages
Nnu Ego's value is measured in sons, and she spends herself raising them in colonial Lagos while her husband launders clothes for an English family. Emecheta counts every cost the title conceals.
★ 6.0
Love You Forever
1986 · 32 pages
A mother sings the same four lines to her son at every age, and the years turn the song around. Munsch made it up after two stillborn children.
★ 4.4