<b>The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Road</i> returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: <i>Stella Maris</i> is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.<br><br>“McCarthy’s art is transcendent even as it takes no prisoners, an achievement akin only to the oeuvres of his greatest peers, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. He will endure.” —<i>Oprah Daily</i><br><i></i><br><i>"</i>The richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than <i>Blood Meridian</i>…or…<i>The Road</i>.” —<i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><br>1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she do