A review by jennifer_mangieri
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

4.0

O Willa Cather! How is it that you have made me love Nebraska?! Another reviewer here called this "prairie tragedy" & I can't improve on that, so there you have it. I just love Cather's writing, which is deceptively simple & full of grass & earth & wind & apples & sky. I love that she can make you hum along with the nature thing & beautiful, smart, sad Alexsandra (yes I checked the spelling) & the Bohemian girls & Italian boys & the big lunkhead brothers & just when you think you kind of know where this is going, WALLOP! Isn't that so American?! We have so many beautiful, smart people & so much diversity & a few lunkheads but they're not so bad, & then....we've got...well, that would spoil it. I loved it.