One of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl swept across an immense part of the United States on April 14, 1935. The storm moved an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil in a matter of hours. Karen Russell’s strange, affecting, new novel, The Antidote opens with the Black Sunday Storm. Storms feature heavily in this book. They scour away the past. They wash the present away, too. The storms leave so little behind that the only way to go on is to rebuild everything from the ground up...

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