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`Antonia' has its roots in all of us.

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From: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20021002
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Byline: Patrick T. Reardon

CHICAGO _ Sure, Willa Cather's "My Antonia" is a story about the settling of the Nebraska plains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But for all Americans it's something much more, writer Kathleen Norris says. It's a look into a mirror of their lives.

"`My Antonia' is taking place right now in Chicago," Norris says, "in all the immigrant groups you have right here, facing all the same issues (as were faced by the characters in Cather's 1918 novel): How much of the old culture are you going to keep? How do you communicate your old culture ...

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