The baker, Nazorine, pudgy and crustyashis great Italian loaves, still dusty with flour, scowled at hiswife, his nubiledaughter, Katherine, andhisbaker's helper, Enzo.
Here were women unapologetic about being women: whole, incomplete, messy, divided, fertile, plump, merchant, slave, prostitute, servant, old, nubile, lost, found, owned, free.