{"product_id":"the-awakening-and-other-stories-signature-editions","title":"The Awakening and Other Stories (Signature Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo all outside appearances, Edna Pontellier is a respectable married woman living in New Orleans with her fond, indulgent husband and her two young sons. Beneath Edna’s smooth, graceful face, however, lurks a woman of passion, a woman who will not—or simply cannot—efface herself in the role that her husband expects of her: an angelic being who reveres him, dotes on their children, and obediently erases her individuality in service to the family’s happiness.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut one lazy summer vacation and an apparently harmless infatuation will push Edna beyond this quiet, settled life, placing her directly at odds with society’s expectations of what a woman should be.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume features additional short stories, including works that wrestled with such topics as racial passing, in “Désirée’s Baby” and queer attraction in “Fedora.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Union Square \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46688772882690,"sku":"9781454953098","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/the-awakening-3x2.jpg?v=1755831849","url":"https:\/\/stlartsupply.mom\/en-au\/products\/the-awakening-and-other-stories-signature-editions","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}