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The repeated "Okay?" & "Okay" struck me. In another novel, characters might say, "We'll be fine," or "Everything's going to work out."

McCarthy strips away those comforting lies. "Okay" becomes enough.

The father protects the boy's body, but the boy, in a quiet way, protects the father's soul.

Deep, tragic and at the same time even being one the bleakest novels I've ever read, so much time spent on tenderness.