I have a few choices for you:


The Road by Cormac McCarthy: A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender despairing and hopeful spare of language and profoundly moving The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery and the essential sometime terrifying power of filial love. It is a masterpiece.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards: On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Downs syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henrys fateful decision that long-ago winter night.

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-- amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks--she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.

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I voted for the road just because I've already read the other two. But if one of the others is picked I'll chime in anyway. So any are okay with me. Great choices chickyhip!!

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I vote "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" just because I have heard good things about it.

I voted for The Mermaid Chair and remind me to never use Wikipedia for book reviews again.