My Ántonia

At ten, orphaned Jim Burden peers from a jolting wagon into a prairie without fences, trees, or hills—only land beneath an immense dome of sky. Somewhere in the darkness, a Bohemian girl named Ántonia is traveling toward the same new country.

In Willa Cather’s 1918 novel, the Nebraska frontier is a place where a child can feel the familiar world fall away between earth and sky. Jim has left Virginia and the parents he has lost for his grandparents’ farm; Ántonia and her immigrant family arrive with little English and their hopes fixed on Black Hawk. As these young lives meet on the raw prairie, friendship must contend with hardship and a land that offers no promises. Will this vast country make room for them—or ask more than either child can give?

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