Morning Book Club

The Morning Book Club will discuss “O Pioneers” by Willa Cather.

“The New York Times review called O Pioneers! “American in the best sense of the word” and pronounced it filled with a “deep instinct for the land,” and exhibiting a “vital consciousness for the dignity and value of the life that may be lived upon it.” All of this is reflected in the character of protagonist Alexandra Bergson, who with her two dunderhead brothers inherits a hardscrabble farm on the Nebraska divide in the late 1800s—and then, in spite of the brothers and countless other hardships of rural pioneer life, gradually turns it into the most prosperous spread anywhere around, though perhaps at the sacrifice of her own personal fulfillment.” – https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/o-pioneers