Colder days are luring Penn students to curl up with a nice book. Ego caught up with people on campus to get some traditional recommendations for your reading pleasure.
OTHELLO
"Basically the first book ever to be written about racial differences. Othello is a black soldier marrying a white governor’s daughter. It discusses the racial boundaries, norms, social statuses of Shakespeare’s time. Would recommend."
—Jordan Sorokin
THE AWAKENING
"It’s about a series of emotional, sexual awakenings. It’s about how … her name’s Edna, she’s a mother and a wife and it’s basically how she’s breaking societal norms, and being an individual as opposed to fulfilling the “duties” of Victorian–age Southern United States. I highly recommend this book."
—Elizabeth Slivjak
