The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
From a vacation in the Gulf of Mexico to returning to New Orleans, Leons' wife and mother of two sons, Edna Pontelier, embarks on an emotionally dangerous journey to discover love and self-actualization. Her relationship with her husband, LeBrune and Mademoiselle Reisch, leads to a battle with isolation, conflicting emotions, and the discovery of life as a sexual being. Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, Kate Chopin's novel was one of the earliest books on gender issues and female sexuality, often referred to as the early standard of feminism.
