I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy for the third time. What’s a book that makes you feel the same way at the end?

The Road is grisly and intense but one of the best books I’ve ever read. I’m looking for something maybe a little bleak, possibly post-apocalyptic or about people in captivity that shows a bit of promise at the end. I want it to punch me in the gut the way the end of The Road does especially the last speech from the man to his son before he dies.

I recently read I Who Have Never Known Men and it gave me a similar feeling. So possibly something along those lines?

Also: I know McCarthy is a great writer, but haven’t been able to stomach any of his other books because there is so much graphic violence.