My Antonia
Willa Cather
published 1918
176 pages
A young man’s accounting of his life with, and without, Antonia Shimerda. When he first sees the Shimerda family, immigrants from Bohemia, disembarking from the same train that is taking him West to live with his grandparents, he has no idea the impact they will have on his life. Nostalgically, he remembers the good and bad times they had on their respective farms and creates his portrait of Antonia, an independent and tough survivor.
