My Antonia is an exceptional novel, about much more than pioneers, prairies and immigrants. It's about heart, strength and soul, embodied in the role of a bohemian immigrant to the Nebraskan prairies, Ántonia Shimerda. Told through the eyes of her great childhood friend Jim Burden, who was brought to the Prairies to reside with his grandparents after the death of his parents, Ántonia's life is laid bare for the reader. Its spirit, its beauty, its rarity, all radiate from Jim's words. Despite trials, losses, struggles and terrible mistakes, Antonia's heart, her joy of life, her purity, her precious ability to discover the value and meaning of what others would consider useless, does not never depreciates. Her optimism, determination, strength and independence of character make her a creature isolated from the rest of her generation. Even dressed in rags and plowing the fields, there is a depth, a grace, an elegance in her. She is a power of nature, the spirit of America; it is both simple and yet incomprehensibly complex. Jim loves Ántonia as much as he loves the meadows....