{"product_id":"happening-by-annie-ernaux","title":"Happening by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHappening\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecounts 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.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial Selection of the Sundance Film Festival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHappening\u003c\/em\u003e, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53088563724597,"sku":null,"price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/Happening_cover_LS-2022-stickered-f_feature-d64d9fdc7c5cfc5754c7831bc03f4d6c_1.jpg?v=1783100966","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/happening-by-annie-ernaux","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}