Karen Russell

The St. Louis County Library Foundation and Left Bank Books Present Pulitzer Prize Nominated Novelist Karen Russell

 
Author of “The Antidote”
 

Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Karen Russell presents a gripping Dust Bowl epic. “The Antidote” 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. Following the storm, the fates of five characters– a “Prairie Witch,” a Polish wheat farmer, an orphaned basketball star, a talking scarecrow, and a New Deal photographer with a time-traveling camera–become wondrously entangled into a heartbreaking vision of what might have been—and what still could be.

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