The Antidote

Russell gets better and better with every word, she is a pure dust storm of utter genius -- DAISY JOHNSON, author of Everything Under Karen Russell is one of our most humane and generous writers; this book is as profound as it is wonderfully strange -- LAUREN GROFF, author of Matrix It’s magic, a book doing this big work and also making it propulsive, eminently readable. Russell has rendered with soul and urgency the vast inexpressible ache at the heart of American gratitude -- KAVEH AKBAR, author of Martyr! This novel swept me up and carried me away, even while somehow burying me, and digging up something about the story of [America] I didn’t know I needed to know -- TOMMY ORANGE, author of Wandering Stars Here in The Antidote, Karen Russel has summoned her singular brand of alchemy and created an epic of heart and devastation, community and laughter, death and life. A book that has it all. An absolute wonder -- NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars Karen Russell’s novel is generous, profound, and will stay with me for a long time -- KELLY LINK, author of Get in Trouble Brilliant... [Russell] writes like nobody else on the planet -- TÉA OBREHT, author of The Tiger's Wife A singular, haunting vision that fearlessly excavates the past and challenges the reader to face the future head-on. A storytelling tour de force * Kirkus (starred review) * Spellbinding... an inspired and unforgettable fusion of the gritty and the fantastic * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * Russell is truly one of the greatest writers of our time... every page is pocked with joy, beauty, wildness and the perfect wisdom of mystery -- RIVKA GALCHEN, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch