Book excerpt: "The Antidote" by Karen Russell

The bestselling author of "Swamplandia!" and "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" returns with a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a prairie witch, who stores the memories that townsfolk don't want to carry.

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