How to Make a Heaven Out of a Hell

There is a really rich history of friendship in literature. We can read moby dick nd see the friendship between ishmael and queequeg. If we want female friendship, clarissa harlowe and anna howe do not get nearly as much attention as they deserve. There are circumstances that are objectively hell or objectively hellish, but our mind makes them worse. For a reading experience that does an incredible job at replicating the feeling of riding on through hell, making your way through hell,  the only way out is through cormac mc carthy's blood meridian. But you have to ride through unspeakable hell to get there.