Country Bookshelf Book Club: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
March 18 @ 5:30pm
Join us for our monthly Country Bookshelf Book Club led by our bookseller Kat! Our March book club will be held on Wednesday, March 18 at 5:30pm. Meetings take place in the first-floor seating area at Country Bookshelf.
RSVPs are not necessary. For more information, visit countrybookshelf.com/event/2026-03-18/march-book-club-drive-your-plow-over-bones-dead-olga-tokarczuk.
This month we will be discussing Olga Tokarczuk’s DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD.
About the Book:
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
About the Author
Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.
