On the surface, this book tells a perfectly ordinary story, about children who grow up in the remote plains, move to town as youths, and, as adults, careen apart and sometimes reconnect. What makes the book remarkable is the honest way the characters relate to each other and to the land itself. As I see it, the book becomes a meditation on the endurance of memory and nature. Cather builds the story in layer upon layer of shared and separate personal history that, while set in an older time, we will all recognize.
Highly recommended, although it's not likely that teens or young adults will fully appreciate it.Get more detail about My Antonia.
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