Join us to celebrate 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Winner Karen Russell, and the paperback release of The Antidote. ABOUT THE BOOK Set in Nebraska during the Dust Bowl, trouble and magic are brewing in this modern-day epic. As we settle into the cast of characters, their memories, secrets, and desires push at the very seams of Russell’s text in her usual sharp and strange style. This is a book that asks us to look to the future as much as we do the past; it’s as hopeful as it is referential, and fantastically brutal in its sincerity. ABOUT PNBA The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association is a nonprofit trade association representing the interests of literacy, free speech and independent bookselling in the PNW region, including Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Our members are booksellers of independent bookstores, librarians, publishers and their sales representatives, publicists, distributors, authors, book reviewers, producers of sideline items relevant to bookstores, and other allies in the bookselling trade.
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