
Penny Olson
To The Bone is an unsparing depiction of the brutality and racist basis of colonialism, the interactions of the colonists with the Native American tribes, the harsh climate, and the circumstances and failures in leadership that lead to the Jamestown Starving Time. It is a dark, horrifying, stark, unsettling, and incredibly well-written work of historical fiction based on real events. Many trigger warnings: colonialism, racism, death, homophobia, physical abuse, abortion, fetus death, starvation,