story: “The Other Wife” (“La femme cachée”)
author: Colette
year: 1924
where: the Ikea kitchen table
note: I love food descriptions in stories. Especially if the food oder is antiquated or peculiar to me. Also, this story was magnificent.
a line: “Immodest without knowing it, everything about her bore the overly conspicuous marks of extreme happiness.”
theme(s): Marriage, exes, comparison
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