256 pages
English language
Published 2010 by Pan Macmillan.
Outer Dark
5 stars
(1 review)
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.
Subjects
- Brothers and sisters, fiction
- Fiction, family life
- Tennessee, fiction
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)