Outer DarkBy: Cormac McCarthy Series: Vintage International From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Road A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he 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.