Champagne Widows, by Rebecca Rosenberg, tells the story of Barbe-Nicole, a woman who inherited the curse (or blessing) of Le Nez, a very acute sense of smell. This sense of smell is one that she was told by her mother was a curse, but she wants to turn the curse into a blessing. She is bound and determined to make champagne, and gets the chance when she marries her high school sweetheart, Francois Clicquot. Her new…
