{"product_id":"the-antidote","title":"The Antidote","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • T\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e EDITORS' CHOICE • 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\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTIME\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVulture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople, The Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBookPage\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-declarative\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47421098786965,"sku":"400000155708","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/9936\/0661\/files\/the-antidote__35934.1749585666.386.513.png?v=1780961875","url":"https:\/\/postscript.press\/products\/the-antidote","provider":"Postscript","version":"1.0","type":"link"}