{"product_id":"the-antidote-9780593802250","title":"The Antidote","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Karen Russell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45298600378519,"sku":"9780593802250","price":2061.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780593802250.webp?v=1767668625","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-antidote-9780593802250","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}