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RUSSELL KAREN THE ANTIDOTE

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • T HE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
EDITORS' CHOICE • From Pulitzer finalist  MacArthur Fellowship recipient  and bestselling
author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic
about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan
town   A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from Lit Hub   Marie Claire   TIME   Vulture   Esquire 
People  The Chicago Review of Books   and BookPage    The Antidote opens on Black Sunday  as a
historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz  Nebraska. But Uz is already
collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but
beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch ” whose body serves as
a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets  a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a
hoarded blessing can become a curse  his orphan niece  a basketball star and witch’s apprentice
in furious flight from her grief  a voluble scarecrow  and a New Deal photographer whose
time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate.  Russell's
novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and
willful omissions passed down from generation to generation  and unearthing not only horrors
but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate
emergency  challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.

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