josh • read

A slow read but one of my favorites this year. Follows numerous families over decades as the Whatcom area is settled. Pulls you deep under and immerses more than any other historical fiction I've read recently. Feels properly a relic of the late 1800's despite being written a century later. Grateful for how soft our lives have become compared to the brutal and consequential existence of the era (true to the name of the book, being among 'the living' is no easy task).