{"product_id":"antidote-hc","title":"Antidote PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSwamplandia!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVampires in the Lemon Grove\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLauren Groff, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e The Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Antidote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Antidote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Antidote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51940919869671,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41Jy4LBpegL.webp?v=1778543297","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/antidote-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}