Kate Chopin · 1899 · Literary fiction
Edna Pontellier, spending a summer at Grand Isle with her husband and children, slowly realises she has a self that does not belong to either of them. A short novel about female consciousness and social suffocation, published in 1899 and considered scandalous enough to derail Chopin's career. One hundred and twenty-five years later it reads as urgent and precise.
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