The Awakening

It was the summer of Edna Pontellier's twenty- eighth year and as she watched all the mother- women surrounding her on the beach, she vowed not to be one of them and to acknowledge the dire needs and deep yearnings within herself that were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.

The Awakening, written over seventy years ago, is the compelling story of a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and struggling to establish herself as an individual—now regarded as a classic in American fiction. --back cover