A review by losersfiction
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

5.0

I liked this one better than All the Pretty Horses and when I think about it seems like an impossibly long book where an incredible amount happens - and yet it’s of average length. A boy on his family farm trying to get rid of a wolf bothering the livestock, then he catches it and can’t bring himself to kill it, so he tries to take it alive to his father. Then he decides he’ll take it over the mountains and release it in Mexico. While there it is stolen from him and he has to put it down because the government seized it and used it as a dog fighting attraction. Then the boy tries to return home only to find his family was slaughtered, save for his brother. He goes to his brother and then the two of them try to go retrieve their horses. They rescue a girl in the road and she sticks with them. They meet a traveling show of gypsies, and a bunch of other incredibly interesting characters. The boy is hardened and beat down by life over and over. His brother runs off with the girl and then his brother dies. It’s a crazy story where a lot of things happen.