LDM Loves: "The Sunset Limited" by Cormac McCarthy

This book will change your mind. Cormac McCarthy's "novel in dramatic form" (publishing speak for: "no one's going to buy a play") is a fantastic rumination on god-is-great v. boring-old-humanity's-all-we-got that'll have you agreeing 100% with both arguments. The entire "novel" is a conversation between two aged men — one white, one black, after the white man tried to leap in front of a train to kill himself, but the black man saved him. HBO's made it easier to skip the text and go right to the silver screen, but have trust that reading it first will illuminate your brain and your tender sense of humanity twelve-fold. 

Buy The Sunset Limited on IndieBound.

Watch the trailer on HBO.com.