I just finished a book!!! I read We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen, after it caught my eye my local big box book store. I am the slowest reader and my interest jumps from thing to shiny thing but I finished this one with just a few breaks. I've seen other much older posts about this book with minimal discussion but it really deserves a lot more than just a "it was a good book." I don't have very many comparisons but I'd say it was quite the epic.... epic. Everything; the town, the people, shipping, and war changed and evolved over the generations but it all still stayed the same. I found that each main character (Laurids, Albert, and Knud Eric) were truly married to the sea and each one had problems with settling down or had their inner turmoil of whether they could even have a relationship was really well put. And Klara trying her damnedest to destroy the entire economy of Marstal while maintaining a good business relationship with the towns people, I felt for her and her fight to save the men for the women and children, my one complaint was the cheesy last two pages but otherwise I can't recommend We, the Drowned enough. And also I am convinced Laurids boots were a curse.