{"product_id":"antidote-a-novel","title":"Antidote: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - T\u003ci\u003eHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e EDITORS' CHOICE - 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\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople, The Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\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":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46609377362089,"sku":"PHBK-9780593802250","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_69569471-422e-46c4-9dda-88664e459092.jpg?v=1764697699","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/antidote-a-novel","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}