Publisher's Synopsis
Considered to be Cathers best work, My Antonia tells the story of Antonia Shimerda. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonia's girlhood is spent working to help her parents wrest a living from the untamed land. Though in later years she suffers betrayal and desertion, through all the hardships of her life she preserves a valor of spirit that no hardship can daunt or break.