{"id":49133,"date":"2026-05-18T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/?p=49133"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:20:39","slug":"between-the-lines-book-discussion-the-antidote-by-karen-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/?p=49133","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines Book Discussion: The Antidote by Karen Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com\/calendar\/between-the-lines-book-discussion-reg-opens-7-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49134 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-antidote-454x700.jpg\" alt=\"The Antidote by Karen Russell book cover.\" width=\"276\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-antidote-454x700.jpg 454w, https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-antidote-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-antidote.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/>Monday, August 10 at 7 PM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Antidote by Karen Russell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Historical Fiction, Magical Realism<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2025)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing\u2014not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a &#8220;Prairie Witch,&#8221; whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples\u2019 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\u2019s 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\u2019s secrets and its fate.<\/p>\n<p>Russell&#8217;s novel is above all a reckoning with a nation\u2019s forgetting\u2014enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been\u2014and what still could be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com\/calendar\/between-the-lines-book-discussion-reg-opens-7-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register for Between the Lines Book Discussion: The Antidote by Karen Russell.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, August 10 at 7 PM The Antidote by Karen Russell Historical Fiction, Magical Realism National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2025) The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing\u2014not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[524,813],"tags":[932],"class_list":["post-49133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-events","category-book-clubs","tag-between-the-lines"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-08-10 20:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49135,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions\/49135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}