A review by gsroney
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

5.0

Approaching this as a murder mystery is probably a mistake (the culprit, I believe, is very obvious), but approaching this as a character study of an eccentric, grieving, and isolated woman is the better move. There are themes of predetermination vs. self-determination, the struggles of feeling at place in a community, the power of friendship on the fringes of society, the morality surrounding humanity’s relationship with nature, plus a good deal of William Blake thrown in.