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The Antidote / Karen Russell.
"A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593802250 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Borzoi book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Country life > Fiction. Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 > Fiction. Dust storms > Nebraska > Fiction. Farmers > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Small cities > Fiction. Nebraska > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Magic realist fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Russe | 31681010409985 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In a Dust Bowl-era Nebraska town burdened by the Great Depression and its dark past, a witch guarding memories, a grieving athlete, a cursed farmer, and a photographer with a time-bending camera grapple with buried secrets and the consequences of a nationâs forgotten history. - Baker & Taylor
In a Dust Bowl-era Nebraska town burdened by the Great Depression and its dark past, a witch guarding memories, a grieving athlete, a cursed farmer, and a photographer with a time-bending camera grapple with buried secrets and the consequences of a nation's forgotten history. - Random House, Inc.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ⢠NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE ⢠NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST ⢠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 collapsingânot 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,â whose body serves as a bank vault for peoplesâ 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 witchâs apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the townâs secrets and its fate.
Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nationâs forgettingâenacting 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 beenâand what still could be.
