Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait
Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...
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Karen Russell’s ‘The Antidote’ is a dazzlingly original American epic
In 2011, Karen Russell cast a spell over readers with her uncanny debut novel, “Swamplandia!” She wasn’t kidding about that exclamation point. The story involves a plucky 13-year-old girl determined ...
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Karen Russell's Dust Bowl 'Antidote' is even more ambitious than 'Swamplandia!'
It takes an unconventional fabulist to address something so vast as American history. Karen Russell is known for surreal storytelling and fantastic language in work marked by slanted perspective ...
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Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait
No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors ...