Kate Chopin's Lesser Novels, Part One

The Slumbering –A sense-rich description of a menopausal woman’s declining eroticism.

“The heat came like a flash. Mrs. Andouille unlaced her corset. A grand esplanade of aged breasts tumbled down to almost touch the dried, shrunken mémoire of her once-alluvial plain. Sweat dripped down her neck only to eddy against the levee of her rounded back. There was nothing to be done but sit on the veranda until dinner.

The octoroon cook made squid.”