When the October 2 New Yorker, featured Alex Ross' interesting article profiling author Willa Cather (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/02/a-walk-in-willa-cathers-prairie), I vowed to read this book.

Amazon Editorial Review

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

I didn't journal this when I read it. It was a beautiful, absorbing read, a convincing journey into love. I just purchased a copy for a graduation gift. Certainly, this is one of the great American novels.

This is now a favorite book of mine. I hope to release it today for All Saints and All Souls in honor of those who have like Fr. Latour joyfully given their lives to the Faith.

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I released this book over a month ago. Perhaps it has been borrowed and returned. I have decided to give it a new venue. I am placing it in this Little Free Library to replace another book that I think needs a new venue. I hope a next reader will enjoy it soon. It would be a good read for the Advent season.