{"product_id":"antidote-book-karen-russell-9780593802250","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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Achingly gorgeous. . . . Karen Russell is one of our most humane and generous writers; this book is as profound as it is wonderfully strange.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eLauren Groff, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51183341928721,"sku":"NIN9780593802250","price":29.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51427875324177,"sku":"CIN059380225XG","price":8.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51594815701265,"sku":"CIN059380225XVG","price":12.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53346921283857,"sku":"CIN059380225XA","price":8.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53420074336529,"sku":"GOR014914554","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/059380225X.jpg?v=1786087242","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/antidote-book-karen-russell-9780593802250","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}