Book Summary:
\nThe Antidote opens on Black Sunday\, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional t own of Uz\, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing &mdash\; not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought\, but beneat h its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch\," whos e body serves as a bank vault for peoples&rsquo\; 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&rsquo\;s apprenti ce in furious flight from her grief\; a voluble scarecrow\; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the tow n&rsquo\;s secrets and its fate.
\nRussell's novel is above all a re ckoning with a nation&rsquo\;s forgetting &mdash\; enacting the settler am nesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation\, an d unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote e choes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency\, challenging rea ders with a vision of what might have been &mdash\; and what still could b e.
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