Join The Cabin for an intimate evening with Pulitzer Prize finalist and short story extraordinaire Karen Russell on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 7 PM, at The Linen Building. The bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove will be speaking about her new book, The Antidote, a gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town. Each ticket includes a hardcover copy of The Antidote!

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About Karen Russell

Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the 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, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. The Antidote is her second novel.

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Tickets

General admission tickets are $45 and include a hardcover copy of Russell's new book, The Antidote.

Are you a Cabin member? Email info@thecabinidaho.org to request a discount code to save $5 on each ticket.

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About The Antidote

The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate.