Remembering the Atrocities of History in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Flights”

Ever since I saw the translation of Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob on the shelf at my library, I wanted to read it; however, I didn’t pick it up because I had so many other books I had to read for various projects and I didn’t have time to tackle such a 992 page novel. While I haven’t read The Books of Jacob, I did pick up a copy of…