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The Awakening by Kate Chopin: The Quiet Terror of Becoming Yourself

I went into it expecting an important (and slightly boring) classic, and I came out thinking that it is actually a remarkably intimate book about something we still struggle to explain: what happens when you realize that the life you are living and the person you so desperately want to be are not necessarily the same thing.

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