A love story for Valentine’s Day: My Antonia is based on the 1918 novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It is the third book of her “prairie trilogy” that also includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. Cather wrote about the struggles of pioneer families on the Great Plains. My Antonia is about a Czech family who move to America and settle in Nebraska. It is considered her best work. The story is similar in many ways to stories of the Czech immigrants to Texas at that time. PG