O Pioneers‪!‬

This is the American frontier novel that brought Willa Cather into households across the country.
Cather is known for her headstrong and committed female protagonists who are willing to give everything they have to succeed and carry their loved ones. Alexandra Bergson, Swedish immigrant to the Great Plains, is the epitome of this strength. In this first of Cather’s three Nebraska novels, Bergson must turn her father’s wild land into an abundant farm, even as many other families are leaving the region, unable to make a living. The richness of Cather’s writing lives in the place where her characters encounter the land, which is itself rich with personality and vitality, and that’s never more true than in O Pioneers!
Follow Alexandra through romance and hard struggle as she tries with all her muster to grow something worth sticking around for.