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jacobbechaz 's review for:
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
O Pioneers is a contemplative and compassionate story of an agricultural Swedish family in Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. Willa Cather writes her characters with great empathy and heart, and her descriptions of landscape are so integral to the novel that the plains are elevated to the same importance as its human protagonists. I loved descriptions of the hills folding characters into its bosom, and the regard in which the earth is held. My first time reading something set in this time and place.