Round 4: Tossup 14

A woman in this novel recounts a childhood memory of buying apricots with her friend when they could not afford entry to a visiting circus. At the start of this novel, a boy ignores instructions to wait in a store when his cat gets stuck up a telegraph pole. After his friend Amédée dies of appendicitis, a would-be law (10[1])student in this novel has an affair with a married woman, whose husband kills them under a white mulberry tree. This novel’s protagonist is kind to the elderly, mystical animal lover Crazy Ivar. This novel’s two main siblings, who respectively fall in love with Marie Shabata and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and Alexandra. For 10 points, a Nebraska farm is the setting (10[1])of what novel (10[1])about the Swedish-American (-5[1])Bergson family by Willa Cather? ■END■ (10[1])

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