Stella Maris is a 208-page, dialogue-only novel by Cormac McCarthy (hardcover, 2022) serving as the companion to The Passenger. It follows 20-year-old Alicia Western, a schizophrenic mathematics prodigy, as she discusses math, philosophy, and her hallucinations with a psychiatrist in 1972 Wisconsin. The book is a, deep, philosophical exploration of grief and sanity