Karen Russell’s The Antidote: A Novel tells the story of the fictional Uz, Nebraska, and begins as a historic dust storm ravages the town. But Uz is already collapsing, not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought, but because of its own violent history. Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You: A Novel chronicles a young woman’s descent into illness and insanity amid a global pandemic. Struggling with grief and a mystifying disease, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, unsure of her friends, and trapped by the same song on a loop in her head. Has illness stolen her old self, or will she get the chance to begin again? Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere; he’s attractive, troubling, and young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In Katie Kitamura’s Audition: A Novel, competing narratives rewrite our understanding of the roles we play every day – and the truths every performance masks.
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KAREN RUSSELL is the author of six books of fiction, including New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami, she now lives in Portland, Oregon. The Antidote (Knopf), a national bestseller, is her second novel.
