2nd Star's August Book Club

Join Second Star to the Right at our community book club! We meet in the shop every third Tuesday of the month from 6:30 - 8 pm. Please RSVP!

For our meeting, we will discuss The Antidote by Karen Russell. Feel free to swing by the shop to pick up a copy or to purchase one via our website.

To purchase this month's read, click here! Use code 'community' to enjoy 10% off your purchase.

About the book:

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.

Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.