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Amber Lyn amberlynsimard — A fascinating story about an absolutely crazy family. Loved it. Shocking, but at the same time believable.

涛 孙 _unsan05 — This book was sold to me as an Icelandic epic. It’s not a fairy tale, quite the opposite. The novel follows Bjartur, a rural sheep farmer who is firmly grounded in the day-to-day reality of eking out an existence by sheep farming in the mountains of Iceland. Bjartur is a very unheroic hero. He is stubborn, mean and close-minded. His heroism comes from his adherence to his ideals. As the title indicates, independence is everything to Bjartur. He worked for a rich family for close to two decades to be able to buy an unforgiving and cursed piece of land where he raises sheep to support his family. His livelihood is unimaginably difficult. Bjartur and his family suffer from 16-hour workdays, starvation and lack of medical care. The people around him, friends, family and acquaintances, all try to convince Bjartur to give up some of his independence to achieve small comforts. The central conflict of the novel is the struggle between Bjartur and his ideals and the pressures of society. It raises the question of the price of independence and whether it’s worth it. What pleased me so much about this book was the constant shift between extreme mundane realism and gorgeous epic poetry. Bjartur’s life is half mindless toil and hardship and half sublime communion with nature. The novel transitions from lengthy discussions of the sheep’s intestinal parasites to reflections on the movement of seasons. Most people’s lives consist of some combination of banal and transcendent experiences and “Independent People” has a way of weaving them together in a persuasive manner. The book doesn’t offer any lessons but it provides a story of how even the most focused and hardened man can be slowly ground down by the vagaries of life.