"Lust" can be found in Lust and Other Stories (1989), Minot's second novel. Her first novel, Monkeys (1986), chronicled the disintegration of a family. Monkeys won the French Prix Femina Etranga and was translated into numerous languages. Her third novel, Folly (1994), is the story of a woman in the early twentieth century who is forced to choose between a conventional marriage and her own desires. Her novel, Evening (1998), chronicles the life of a woman as it slowly ends in cancer.