Description: Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival
Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.
This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.
In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment.
--The New York Times
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Happening
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.2 in
Topic: Women, Family Life, Abortion & Birth Control, Personal Memoirs, Pregnancy & Childbirth
Genre: Social Science, Health & Fitness, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 4.2 Oz
Author: Annie Ernaux
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
