The narrator and the protagonist both befriend Lena Lingard in the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska.  
The narrator of this novel says that a missionary described his Grandfather Josiah's beard as looking   like it belonged to an Arabian sheik. That narrator of this novel reads the Life of Jesse James  as he  travels from Virginia with Jake Marpole after his parents die. The protagonist has a brother who   barks like a dog and has webbed fingers named Marek, and her depressed father commits suicide.  The narrator and the protagonist both befriend Lena Lingard in the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska.  Name this book about narrated by Jim Burden about a Bohemian immigrant that was written by  Willa Cather.
The narrator of this novel says that a missionary described his Grandfather Josiah's beard as looking   like it belonged to an Arabian sheik.
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