EAN: 9781524712822

RUSSELL KAREN THE ANTIDOTE

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • T HE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
EDITORS' CHOICE • WINNER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK
CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD   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   NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE
YEAR: The New York Times   The Washington Post   NPR  Time   Esquire   PEN America  People 
Scientific America  LitHub   The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   T he Globe and the Mail  
Portland Monthly   Kirkus   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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