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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.0

The first time I'd read this book was in high school. So while I remembered the basics, much was new on this revisit. I think my takeaway was how constrictive Puritan society in New England one. (Some would say the US retains a strain of this in its public life). Also, how theocracies make moral failings into crimes, and how that changes people and their available choices.

3.5 stars (rounded down to 3)