Cormac McCarthy's The Road

I do Modern American Fiction. In our seminar yesterday we tried to think of an American Fiction written in the 20/21 Century that ended with an uplifting note. It has to be a 'credible' work. We were stumped.
Anyway I finished reading The Road today and I have little to say, other than it is a brilliant and bleak. I haven't cried so much since Rowling killed off Sirius.