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Karen Russell on her new novel, 'The Antidote'

Karen Russell is the author of "The Antidote."
Annette Hornischer
Karen Russell is the author of "The Antidote."

Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell’s highly anticipated second novel, The Antidote, is an American epic set in Nebraska in the 1930s, immediately following the Black Sunday dust storm.

It has a little bit of everything - basketball, prairie witches who collect memories, a magical camera, a scarecrow and so much more.

Karen Russell will be at Watermark Books in Wichita on Sunday, March 16 at 2 pm.

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The Antidote was published by Knopf.

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.