Will I love My Antonia?

I love this book because it is the only other novel, besides my own, that I know of that features pianist Blind Tom. or at least a character based on Blind. In Cather’s novel, he is called the Blind d’Arnault. Cather is a fine writer who knows how to tell a story. It is a novel that I go back to for inspiration and ideas. I often write about music in my fiction and appreciate other authors who take up this challenge.

I read this book under the covers with a flashlight when I was probably too young to know what I was really reading. Still, I was deeply impacted by the story of these early settlers in the American West.

Although today I read it with a greater awareness of the history of the native people of that land, I am still stunned by the description of a seemingly one-dimensional but beautiful landscape and the world we most often now "fly over."