Reflections on The Antidote
book by Karen Russell
This page gathers my ongoing engagement with this book—reading notes, marginalia, and reflections written across different moments of return. What’s collected here focuses less on summary and more on what lingered after reading.
wild and unruly
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The Antidote by Karen Russel
The plow that broke these plains was the plow that broke my family back in German-occupied Poland: the plow of empire. The plow that displaces and murders people, tearing them from their homes. The plow that levels more than tallgrass. The plow pushed by people like me.