Seething

Like all of McCarthy's work, The Road is packed to the brim with language so achingly beautiful alongside events so cruelly terrible it's hard to swallow. Yet all the same you cannot help but swallow. Lyrical, stuttering, soulwrenching. This left me empty and cold, which is exactly what I look for in novels. 

Emily Carroll's art, as always, is fantastic. I haven't read the original novel, but it works beautifully as a graphic novel. The emotional bite is razor sharp, the story is haunting, and I teared up a ton. This is not my first rodeo reading about SA, nor about such young kids' traumas around SA, but I thought this was such a beautiful and heartwrenchingly realistic look into a time and place of a high schooler in this situation.
Yes, the ending was very positive... very “things worked out and will continue to work out!” But to be honest, I think I needed that.