My Antonia
A Bohemian immigrant girl on the Nebraska prairie, remembered by the boy who never quite had her.
Jim Burden, orphaned and sent to his grandparents in Nebraska, arrives on the same train as the Shimerdas, a Bohemian family with no English and no idea what they have come to. He narrates Antonia’s life from a distance across decades, and the distance is the book’s subject: what he made of her, and how much of it was ever hers. Cather published it in 1918.
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