{"product_id":"the-antidote","title":"The 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\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\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. \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":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167775457568,"sku":"9780593802250","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780593802250.jpg?v=1769742417","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-antidote","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}