-Karen Russell is one in a million- New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer-shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land, set in America-s Dust Bowl. Visit the Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers. Until the Black Sunday storm, which flattens wheatfields, buries houses and vaporizes every memory stored inside the Antidote. She wakes up empty - as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever discover the truth, her life will be in danger. To the Antidote-s surprising defence comes Asphodel - young tearaway, girls- basketball captain and aspiring prairie witch - who won-t take no for an answer. Along with her uncle, a Polish wheat farmer, and a New Deal photographer with an enchanted camera, they must confront what has cursed this town - its land on the brink of ruin and its people on the edge of starvation. Apart, they run
