The antidote / Karen Russell.
2025
Fiction
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Title
The antidote / Karen Russell.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Imprint
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Description
419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary
"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" -- Provided by publisher
Note
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Russell, Karen, 1981- Antidote. First edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025
Call Number
Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9780593802250 hardcover
059380225X hardcover
9780593802267 electronic book
059380225X hardcover
9780593802267 electronic book
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