As I have just started reading Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, I don’t know much about this book at all. The book starts in a Polish village across the border from the Czech Republic, with our main character being woken up and finding out her long-time neighbor Big Foot is dead.
”Please get dressed. Big Foot is dead.”
I choose this quotation above all others because, like the main character herself, she doesn’t know how to react, what to say, or even what to do in this situation just like us as the readers. We just opened this book let alone encountered new characters for the first time and now one has already died right in front of our own very eyes. Speechless, this was a great start for this book.