Title: Rabid wolves, unwed mothers, suicide/murder-a more realisitic approach to life on the prairie...
Product review: I read this book over Christmas as a request from my mother-in-law and considering what she usually gives me to read, I was resigned to plowing through a Laura Ingalls clone. Well, I was surprised by this novel. It is a mature and not the least dated telling of an imigrant girl's experiences growing up on the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's/early 1900s. It is more a series of short stories than an actual novel.Being told from some else's point of view besides Antonia's gives the book a wider scope. I only wish Antonia would have had the options in life her biographer did. But I suppose that's realism rearing its ugly head once more. Interesting and thought-provoking. A little slow at the start but an easy read.
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