Realizing they cannot survive the winter in more northern latitudes, the father takes the boy south along interstate highways towards the sea, carrying their meager possessions in their knapsacks and a supermarket cart. The boy’s mother, pregnant with him at the time of the disaster, committed suicide some time before. It is interesting, I am not sure if I would have read the book based on the summary:Ī father and his young son journey on foot across the post-apocalyptic ash-covered United States some years after an extinction event. To be honest, even though I had heard of it, I did not really know what it was about before starting the journey. I had never seen the film nor read The Road in the past. I remember by left in both shock and awe at the book when I first read it, but the podcast really helped elucidate what makes the text special for me, particularly the idea of landscape as a character and the contradictory nature of characters such as The Judge. Inspired by The Partially Examined Life’s investigation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, I re-read the book.
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