Genevieve Fauconnier's Claude

This is a graceful, unusual novel, written in the voice of a housewife and her journal. She speaks very simply of the life she leads, between tending her children and the dinner she just made (we can not only smell it, but we can hear the gurgles of the kitchen). I liked it very much. It closes on a nice thought, that she and her husband, even when not speaking, are plowing the same plot of land -- sound better in French.