The Antidote

A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination

The Times

An elaborate embroidery of social, geological, historical, and environmental research on the impact of American Western expansion… [Russell’s] sharp narrative grasp guides the reader from character to character as the book unfolds’

Los Angeles Times

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!

Russell’s… potent prose and sheer originality consistently dazzle

Hephzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday

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

Brilliant. A vital exploration of America's truths and legacies, a novel for our times

IRENOSEN OKOJIE

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