Simply written but effective. It describes the history of one family through generations. It shows all the struggles, virtues, flaws, that members of this family go through. How to continue to grow as a human, to live without fear before lives difficulties, how we rise and fall if we're not constantly on the lookout. Part of a trilogy this book was written in the 1930's. Beautifully written about family life and love and God and the hardships they face on a farmstead deep in the mountains in Norway.