Kate Chopin's novel, "The Awakening"

In and around New Orleans, Louisiana

Kate Chopin's novel, "The Awakening," written around the turn of the century, concerns the unraveling of a marriage and the concurrent awakening of a woman's independence of mind, spirit and body. It is a relatively short, book, often described as "Delicious" because of its rich descriptions of the main character's awakening from a stultifying existence and toward the very uncertain unknown future. The novel was "rediscovered" by feminists in the 1970s and has been republished and taught at colleges across the nation since then. Reading it is a revelation.

Joe