Fermentation is a book about the senses, about carnal pleasures and one woman's insatiable appetite. Set in a French hill town during a searing heat wave, this erotic novel is a surreal and sensual tale of desire, satisfaction, and need. In the midst of a scorching summer, the garbagemen go on strike, the air turns stagnant, and the novel's young narrator, Odissa, becomes pregnant. In the eerie calm of the city's relentless heat, she soon discovers that, rather than pickles and ice cream, her pregnant craving is for cheese. And as her baby grows, Odissa makes her way through a variety of cheeses, from Brie to parmigiano to Roquefort, and finds that satisfying her hunger spawns a series of incredibly erotic dreams and fantasies.