The Endless Possibility of Renewal
Reviewing Willa Cather’s 1918 Classic ‘My Ántonia’
When the orphan Jim Burden meets Ántonia Shimerda, they’re both children aboard a train headed for the Nebraska plains. His parents have died, and he’s going to live with his grandparents. Her family has emigrated to the US, hoping for better odds on the American prairie than those offered by their native Bohemia.
The margins are where people go when the…
