My Mortal Enemy
by Willa Cather
My Mortal Enemy (1926) is Willa Cather's spare, devastating novella about Myra Driscoll, a spirited young woman from a wealthy family who elopes with the man she loves—and spends the rest of her life reckoning with what that choice cost her. Narrated by a young woman who idolizes Myra, the story moves from the glitter of turn-of-the-century New York to a bleak West Coast hotel room decades later. "Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy!"
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