Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Real Simple

Real Simple

and the line between past and present begins to blur

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie

and beat out the competition

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Real SimpleWarwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist "A marvelously weird and fablelike mystery. . . . Authors with Tokarczuk's vending machine of phrasing . . . and gimlet eye for human behavior. . . are rarely also masters of pacing and suspense. But even as Tokarczuk sticks landing after landing . . . her asides are never desultory or a liability. They are more like little cuts quick, exacting and purposefully belated in their bleeding. . . . This book