A review by georgina_bawden
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

5.0

I really enjoyed this female perspective on the pioneer tale. It's surprisingly (to me anyway) feminist, focusing on the capable daughter of a Swedish immigrant to Nebraska. At the start of the book her father dies and she takes on the family farm with the help (or hindrance) of her brothers. The book jumps forward in time to show how the family's fortunes play out. There is a lot made of the natural wealth of the landscape and the characters' connection or disconnection with it. It was a rather beautiful little book. Very Manifest Destiny but interesting nonetheless.