Stella Maris

In "Stella Maris," the second volume of The Passenger series by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, readers delve into the mind of twenty-year-old Alicia Western, who checks herself into a psychiatric facility with her own struggles and a complex past. Battling paranoid schizophrenia, she navigates profound themes of grief and existence while reflecting on her childhood, her brother Bobby, and the intersection of mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Presented through the transcripts of her therapy sessions, this thought-provoking narrative explores the nature of madness and the human experience.