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The Awakening
Classic fiction
The Awakening
During a summer on Grand Isle, Edna Pontellier begins questioning the roles of wife and mother that have structured her life in Creole society. Her growing independence is shaped by swimming, art, solitude, friendship, and her attachment to Robert Lebrun. The freedom Edna imagines repeatedly collides with emotional obligations and a culture that offers women little room between self-erasure and scandal. Sensuous, concise, and tragic, this classic is a powerful beach read for adults interested in female autonomy, desire, motherhood, and an awakening that exposes possibilities without providing a sustainable path toward them.
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Suicide by drowning; depression and severe emotional distress; infidelity and extramarital sexual relationships; controlling marriage and gender oppression; death and grief; childbirth/motherhood pressures.
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