O Pioneers!

Emily says about O Pioneers!: 
"I have come across Willa Cather a few times recently and felt that I really should read one of America’s most important, and often overlooked writers! Set on the Nebraskan prairies, the story follows Alexandra after she inherits her father’s farm. Both Alexandra and the Willa herself felt so incredibly ahead of their time and I had to keep reminding myself it was written in 1913. Beautiful writing and compelling characters!"

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed itTo the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd in. A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American.