Planters, fiddlers, Acadian farmers and Creole belles fill these stories of the Cane River country of northwest Louisiana. Among them are “A No-Account Creole”, which opens the book, the quiet devotion of “Beyond the Bayou”, and “Désirée’s Baby”, Chopin’s devastating story of a young wife and the question of race.
Chopin’s 1894 collection, written before The Awakening, is a fine way into her deft, unsentimental art. Download the free EPUB.