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RUSSELL KAREN THE ANTIDOTE

***Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction***   'Powerful' Financial Times  'A pure
dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON  'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN
GROFF    What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget?   Visit the
Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green
earhorn  and your secrets  your shames  your private joys  will leave your mind and enter hers.
Until the Black Sunday storm  which flattens wheatfields  buries houses and vaporizes every
memory stored inside the Antidote. She wakes up empty - as bankrupt as America. If her
customers ever discover the truth  her life will be in danger.  To the Antidote's surprising
defence comes Asphodel - young tearaway  girls' basketball captain and aspiring prairie witch -
who won't take no for an answer. Along with her Polish wheat-farmer uncle and a New Deal
photographer with an enchanted camera  they must confront what has cursed this town: its land
on the brink of ruin and its people on the edge of starvation. Apart  they run from the
memories that have brought them here. Together  they face down the storm coming their way.  
The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nation's forgetting - the wilful omissions passed
down from generation to generation. This gripping Dust Bowl epic echoes with urgent warnings
for our own time  daring us to imagine what might have been - and what still could be.  
'Russell has rendered with soul and urgency the vast inexpressible ache at the heart of
American gratitude' KAVEH AKBAR 'Karen Russell is one in a million' New York Times  'This novel
swept me up and carried me away' TOMMY ORANGE

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