The Antidote by Karen Russell
Karen Russell has been nominated, awarded, and received all the things—from Pulitzer nominations to a MacArthur Fellowship—and now she’s back with a Dust Bowl epic.
A historic dust storm converges upon the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska, but it’s not the only thing the town is threatened by. As the Great Depression looms large, Uz’s violent past starts to bubble up. We see it through its many characters, like the Prairie Witch, whose body stores peoples’ secrets, the wheat farmer whose blessing becomes a curse, a yapping scarecrow, and even a New Deal photographer who has a time-traveling camera.