{"product_id":"the-antidote","title":"The Antidote","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSwamplandia!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVampires in the Lemon Grove\u003c\/i\u003e Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD - WINNER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD - \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Antidote\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Antidote \u003c\/i\u003efollows 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRussell'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. \u003ci\u003eThe Antidote\u003c\/i\u003e echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been--and what still could be.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 059380225X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593802250\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Russell, Karen\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Mar 2025)","offer_id":46356589281477,"sku":"9780593802250","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2026)","offer_id":46356589314245,"sku":"9780593688366","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593802250.jpg?v=1781309373","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-antidote","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}