I read Kate Chopin's The Awakening recently. I'm not sure how I made it through high school and college without reading it before. Featuring our hapless heroine Edna (the name of not one, but both, of my grandmothers), I found the novel occasionally frustrating, but ultimately fulfilling. I can't remember the last time I read a novel not set in the present day, or, at the very least, the modern era. In spite of my imagining Edna's New Orleans home to resemble the Belfort Mansion where the cast of the Real World New Orleans lived, I was whisked away to a different place and time, which was splendid.
Posted by waking slow at May 12, 2003 02:57 PMi've heard lots of good things recently about that book. maybe i should try and read it, too.
Posted by: david on May 13, 2003 10:41 AM