Willa Cather 
My Mortal Enemy 

My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926. Myra and her husband Oswald return to their fictional hometown of Parthia, Illinois, to visit their relatives. Nellie and Aunt Lydia then leave to spend the Christmas holiday in New York City with them. Cather scholar Laura Winters suggested that the novel ‚represents the bitter apotheosis of the issues of exile Cather worked on all of her life.‘