Author Series & Book Signing: Karen Russell

We are honored and delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Karen Russell to the Red Cloud Opera House to discuss her new novel, The Antidote. Set in Uz, a fictional Nebraska town, in the aftermath of Black Sunday, 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. 

Russell will sign copies of her book in the National Willa Cather Center bookstore immediately following her talk. You won't want to miss this free and in-person event! 

The Antidote is available for preorder from our bookstore and can be shipped or picked up after its release date on March 11.

Are you interested in an elevated experience for this in-person author series event? Consider purchasing our Patron Package! This VIP experience includes:

• Copy of Karen Russell's new novel, The Antidote
• Heavy hors d'oeuvres at 5:30 and meet and greet with artist Daniel Garringer, whose Visual Antithesis exhibit is on display in the Art Gallery
• Priority seating for Russell's author talk at 7:00 p.m.
• Skip the line for the book signing

Purchase a Patron Package

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Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. The views expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views of Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, or the Willa Cather Foundation.