The bombs fell, and the world ended. A man and his pregnant wife survived the blasts. Their son would be born into a world changed entire. It grew darker, and colder, and more violent. The new world was grim and grey and relentless, and the wife could not bear to live in it. 

The man and his young son had to set out on the road, alone, heading south. The road, though, is dangerous. Cannibals and slavers and men driven mad with hunger roam the hills. Even if the man can avoid marauders, will he be clever and lucky enough to find food and supplies in the picked-over remains of civilization to feed his son? And every day that they survive, they have to ask themselves if it is worth surviving. What awaits them in the south, on the coast?

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Similar books we recommend: 

• Anything by Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, etc.
• Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/parable-of-the-sower)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/a-canticle-for-leibowitz-who-knew-the-nuclear-apocalypse-could-be-so-funny)