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The Antidote
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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Karen Russell is one in a million New York Times From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set Americas Dust Bowl. Visit The Antidote of Uz a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers. But after the great dust storm that flattens wheatfields, buries houses and kills a newlywed couple just a few feet from their car, the Antidote wakes up empty as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever find out, her life will be in danger. To the Antidotes surprising defence come a farmer, his basketball-playing niece and a Black photographer with her time-travelling camera. Apart, they run from the memories that have brought them to this lonely brink. Together, they face down the tornado coming their way. The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nations forgetting theft, dispossession, wilful blindness, passed on generation to generation. The Dust Bowl echo with warnings of our own time, daring to challenge us with what might have been and what still could be. A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination The Times
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Historical fiction steeped in magical realism unfolds here in a pre-technicolor Oz of Uz, NE. Beautifully written with multiple perspectives, the story comes from the titular Antidote, a Prairie Witch practiced in banking memories away from their experiencer, Asphodel, a fearless orphan obsessed with basketball & new love , her uncle, a farmer who finds sudden fortune after Black Sunday, Cleo, a New Deal photographer, a scarecrow & a cat!

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And…I now interrupt all in-progress reading to start this one. Russell never disappoints, always entertains. Look forward to a great read.

Karisimo I started this today too! 2w
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Suet624 Just finished the new Kevin Barry book and I loved it. 3mo
BoleyBooks @Suet624 - Oh, so glad 😊 thanks for bringing that title to my attention. 3mo
Ruthiella I feel like it‘s been a while since Karen Russell had a new book! 3mo
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BoleyBooks @Ruthiella -this was my first book by her that I‘ve read. Do you have a favorite that I should get my hands on? 😊 3mo
Ruthiella @BoleyBooks I‘ve only read her other novel “Swamplandia!”, which wasn‘t my cup of tea. I‘d say try her short stories and see if her style is to your liking. 3mo
mcctrish I love Karen Russel 3mo
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