Chatting Books Online Day 95. If you had asked me my favorite book back when I was in college I would have probably answered "The Awakening by Kate Chopin" ( also possible I would have answered A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole or Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy , but I digress).
When I was in college I saw the book through the eyes of a young, single woman and identified with the strength of the main character claiming rights over her life. When I re-read the book in my late 20's early 30's I saw it differently but still admired her strength. When I have read it again years later I was angry with the infidelity in the story, and finally when I read it again in recent years I find a sadness that it ends like it did (won't ruin it and tell you).
Originally written in 1899 and set between Grand Isle and New Orleans this book was considered shocking at publication. This book is many things to many people - and many things to the same person depending on where you are in life when you read it, and isn't that hopefully true of all great literature?
This very short 116 page paperback costs only $4 a copy.
Day 95 : The Awakening by Kate Chopin
