My Antonia

The final novel in Willa Cather's acclaimed Great Plains Trilogy, that includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. `A clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit' Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARA WHEELER Jim Burden, a young orphan sent to live with relatives in Nebraska, grows up alongside Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda. But while their childhoods are shared, their paths soon diverge, spurred on by the effects of dire poverty on the Shimerda family. Cather's novel was met with instant acclaim: in it she paints a portrait of the beautiful, unforgiving Nebraskan landscape and honours the lives of ordinary people during a pivotal era in American history.