The Antidote by Karen Russell
Karen Russell has been nominated, awarded, and obtained all of the issues—from Pulitzer nominations to a MacArthur Fellowship—and now she’s again with a Mud Bowl epic.
A historic mud storm converges upon the fictional city of Uz, Nebraska, nevertheless it’s not the one factor the city is threatened by. Because the Nice Melancholy looms giant, Uz’s violent previous begins to bubble up. We see it by way of its many characters, just like the Prairie Witch, whose physique shops peoples’ secrets and techniques, the wheat farmer whose blessing turns into a curse, a yapping scarecrow, and even a New Deal photographer who has a time-traveling digicam.
