Book Title

A Lost Lady

Author

Willa Cather

Summary

A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester, who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad. The novel is written in the third person, but is mostly written from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester as well as the West itself.