Finished reading: The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig 📚

The Sea Runners a stupefyingly relentless account of four indentured servants escaping from a Russian trading post in what is today Sitka, Alaska. In their harrowing journey by canoe (in winter) through a brutal stretch of Pacific coastline down to Astoria, Oregon the yearning for human freedom constantly confronts an absurd and often hostile universe, with mounting dread. Like Dostoevsy trying to write a Coen Brothers movie. With prose so sharp that it can feel brittle, Doig carves narratives that feel simultaneously intimate and epic. Not for the feint of heart, but boy can Doig paint a picture.