No fun voices today.

Tonight we turn the podcast over to Edna Pontellier and to Kate Chopin, a woman writing against the grain in 1899.

We begin The Awakening.

It starts innocently enough: a parrot repeating phrases, a vacation at Grand Isle, croquet, and my very bad French. But beneath the surface, there's a tension. Something about to rupture, or maybe something just waiting to be discovered.

There's something going on at Grand Isle, and I think it matters.

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Marked Explicit for racist, historical language.