Status Updates From Independent People

This is the worst book introduction I have ever read

“Still, she never thinks of retreating, of begging Bjartur for another chance. For it turns out that she, no less than this father of hers who is not her true father, nurtures a proud independence. Somehow she will get by.”

I wouldn’t ask for help from my pedo father who hit me after finding out I was pregnant either. Women get by all the time and have pride, surprise!

“They enter a fishing village and put up in a raucous and squalid lodging house, where they must share a bed. In the night, the frightened girl reaches innocently for her father and he, for a moment, responds to her sexually—he places a hand on her bare leg.”

I see we are spoiling the entire book during its introduction/foreword. Interesting choice.

“ But in time there comes to Bjartur a different sort of romance, a new form of “marriage.” The child of his first wife survives its mother’s death and Bjartur rears it as his own.”

This is a choice. I could rant about men and their proclivities… but I won’t.